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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1987
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Fire Swamp (Robin Wright)
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The Princess Bride
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2004
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Unforgettable kiss in the rain. (Ryan Gosling)
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The Notebook
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2014
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Cancer couple (Shailene Woodley)
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The Fault in Our Stars
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2013
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Man falls in love with 1s and 0s. (Joaquin Phoenix)
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Her
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1992
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Singer falls for the help. (Kevin Costner)
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The Bodyguard
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2004
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Love and a mind wipe. (Jim Carrey)
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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1990
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Ditto. (Patrick Swayze)
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Ghost
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2005
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Love consultant falls in love. (Eva Mendes)
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Hitch
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1985
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Film star walks off the screen and into a woman's arms. (Jeff Daniels)
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The Purple Rose of Cairo
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2002
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Armenian family likely told protagonist off-screen to put some Windex on her relationship. (Nia Vardalos)
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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
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1997
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Iceberg breaks up star-crossed couple. (Leonardo DiCaprio)
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Titanic
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2018
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Girlfriend finds out her boyfriend's family is wealthy. (Constance Wu)
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Crazy Rich Asians
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2019
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Man has one day to convince deportee to fall in love with him. (Charles Melton)
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The Sun is Also a Star
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1995
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The long walk and talk of romance between train passengers. (Julie Delpy)
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Before Sunrise
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1988
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Bookstore owners fall in love. (Tom Hanks)
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You've Got Mail
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1989
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Good friends realize love was right in front of them the whole time, and not just at the deli. (Meg Ryan)
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When Harry Met Sally
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2001
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Musical in which writer falls for actress and they share a secret song. (Ewan McGregor)
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Moulin Rouge!
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1999
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Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew gets the high school treatment. (Julia Stiles)
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10 Things I Hate About You
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2004
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Woman who loses her memory when she goes to sleep every night is wooed anew daily by her boyfriend. (Adam Sandler)
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50 First Dates
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2014
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Screenwriter uses the experiences of his relationships to finish his screenplay. (Michelle Monaghan)
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Playing it Cool
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1987
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Girl falls for dance instructor who also teaches her to stand up for herself. (Patrick Swayze)
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Dirty Dancing
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2008
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Father about to get a divorce tells his daughter the story of how he fell in love with her mother. (Rachel Weisz)
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Definitely, Maybe
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2001
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Soulmates meet by chance and test destiny by parting. Years later they both try and find each other and comically just miss one another several times. (John Cusack)
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Serendipity
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1997
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Woman realizes she loves a man days before he is getting married and she sets her sights on him. (Julia Roberts)
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My Best Friend's Wedding
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2008
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Indian goes on local game show, wins and meets his love at a train station. (Dev Patel)
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Slumdog Millionaire
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2009
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Greeting Card writer's girlfriend breaks up with him and he reflects on the relationship to find a way to win her back. (Zooey Deschanel)
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500 Days of Summer
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1987
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Rich heiress falls off boat, loses her memory, and the carpenter she used to make fun of, convinces her that the two are married. (Kurt Russell)
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Overboard
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1993
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Geek marries a call girl, steals drugs from her pimp and the couple go on the run. (Patricia Arquette)
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True Romance
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2007
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Woman's husband dies and leaves notes to be opened periodically that lead her to realize she can love again. (Gerard Butler)
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P.S. I love You
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2006
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Man is sent to India to to get Indian call center team up to standard and falls in love with one of the call reps. (Ayesha Dharker)
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Outsourced
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1989
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He gave her his heart and she gave him a pen. (John Cusack)
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Say Anything
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2003
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Ad exec bets he can make a woman fall in love with him in 10 days. (Matthew McConaughey)
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
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2016
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Musical in which a man and woman meet, fall in love, and must choose between staying together or pursuing successful careers. (Emma Stone)
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La La Land
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1942
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Sam plays it again in Morocco. (Humphrey Bogart)
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Casablanca
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2010
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Woman plans trip to Dublin to propose to a man on Leap day because tradition there states he can't refuse on that day. (Amy Adams)
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Leap Year
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1995
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Married woman falls for National Geographic photographer. (Clint Eastwood)
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The Bridges of Madison County
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2011
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When his wife asks for a divorce, man learns about love from his single buddy. (Julianne Moore)
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Crazy, Stupid Love
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1970
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Couple learns love means never having to say you're sorry. (Ryan O'Neal)
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Love Story
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1990
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Corporate raider hires call-girl while he's in town and the two fall in love. (Julia Roberts)
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Pretty Woman
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2010
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Man must defeat league of evil exes to prove his love for his new girlfriend. (Michael Cera)
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Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World
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1934
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Capra film in which a reporter winds up stuck with an heiress after a bus leaves without them. (Claudette Colbert)
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It Happened One Night
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2017
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Del Toro film in which a woman falls in love with the supernatural creature detained at the facility where she works as a cleaner/maid. (Doug Jones)
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The Shape of Water
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1998
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Reimagining of a Disney princess tale. (Drew Barrymore)
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Ever After: A Cinderella Story
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2003
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Swinging senior falls in love with the mother of his younger girlfriend after she helps him after a heart attack. (Jack Nicholson)
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Something's Gotta Give
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2012
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Pair of former mental patients fall in love with the help of some "signs." (Jennifer Lawrence)
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Silver Linings Playbook
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2007
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While seeking a fallen star for the woman a man is smitten with, he finds true love. (Charlie Cox)
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Stardust
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2006
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Love triangle ensues between Mexican, Italian writer and wealthy American. (Salma Hayek)
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Ask the Dust
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1980
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Man uses hypnosis to travel back in time, where he falls in love with an actress. (Christopher Reeve)
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Somewhere in Time
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2001
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Fisherman leaves to fight in WWII and his fiancee falls in love with an Italian commander. (Penelope Cruz)
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Captain Corelli's Mandolin
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1995
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Fiancee on a plane is used to smuggle jewelry into Paris and finds she has feelings for the jewel thief. (Kevin Kline)
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French Kiss
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1998
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Angel falls in love with mortal woman. (Meg Ryan)
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City of Angels
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2009
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Wife encounters temporal trouble with traveling husband. (Eric Bana)
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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1996
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Near end of World War II, a nurse hears the story of a burn victim's love affair with a married woman. (Juliette Binoche)
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The English Patient
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2001
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Petite French woman with garden gnome seeks to help others on her journey to love. (Mathieu Kassovitz)
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Amelie
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1992
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Woman takes up cooking when tradition prevents her from being with the one she loves. (Marco Leonardi)
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Like Water for Chocolate
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2016
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Biopic about an interracial couple living in 1960s Virginia. (Ruth Negga)
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Loving
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1987
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Woman falls in love with fiance's brother. (Cher)
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Moonstruck
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2005
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Cowboy just can't quit another cowboy. (Heath Ledger)
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Brokeback Mountain
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2002
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Two friends use the same pseudonym in 1890s London when courting women. Hilarious hijinks ensue. (Reese Witherspoon)
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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1995
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Retelling of Jane Austen tale about three sisters and a second wife left penniless when the husband dies. (Tom Wilkinson)
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Sense and Sensibility
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1995
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Three women attend university in Dublin and one of them falls in love with a student there. (Minnie Driver)
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Circle of Friends
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2006
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Man must deal with wife's institutionalization due to Alzheimers. (Michael Murphy)
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Away from Her
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2002
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Lonely entrepreneur finds love with English woman while he is being extorted by the owner of a phone-sex line. Lots of pudding. (Emily Watson)
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Punch-Drunk Love
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2011
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British student falls in love with an American student just before she gets banned from the United States. (Anton Yelchin)
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Like Crazy
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1960
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Insurance clerk tries to improve his career by letting co-workers use his apartment for liaisons, only to fall in love himself as a result. (Shirley MacLaine)
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The Apartment
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1984
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Man and mermaid fall in love. (Tom Hanks)
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Splash
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1997
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Genius leaves Boston to see about a girl. (Minnie Driver)
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Good Will Hunting
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1987
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Comedy about a man with a big nose who helps others find love, only to find it himself. (Steve Martin)
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Roxanne
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1978
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Musical in which a high school car enthusiast falls for a preppy girl. (Olivia Newton John)
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Grease
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1993
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Busboy with a diseased heart falls wildly in love with a waitress. (Christian Slater)
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Untamed Heart
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1955
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Famous meatball and spaghetti sharing scene. (Barbara Luddy)
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Lady and the Tramp
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2005
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Middle-aged man finds love later than usual in life. (Steve Carell)
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin
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1993
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Widowed man's son call a radio show to try and find him a partner. (Meg Ryan)
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Sleepless in Seattle
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1989
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Ghost of a pilot watches over the love of his life as she falls in love with another man. (Richard Dreyfuss)
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Always
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1951
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English missionary convinces a river boat captain to attack a German ship. (Meg Ryan)
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The African Queen
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2017
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Pakistani comedian falls for grad student and has to meet her family after she falls ill from a mysterious sickness. (Kumail Nanjiani)
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The Big Sick
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2005
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Former rotund man returns to hometown slimmed down and breaks through the friend zone. (Amy Smart)
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Just Friends
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1999
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Bookshop owner falls in love with famous movie star. (Hugh Grant)
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Notting Hill
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2003
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Fiance leaves his comfort zone and finds love where he wasn't expecting it. (Julia Stiles)
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A Guy Thing
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1996
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Sports agent had his secretary at hello. (Tom Cruise)
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Jerry Maguire
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1993
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Man gets stuck in recurring time loop and uses it to learn more about a woman he falls in love with. (Andie MacDowell)
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Groundhog Day
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2000
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NBA wannabes get together after high school, play college ball, break up, turn pro and find each other again. (Omar Epps)
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Love & Basketball
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1957
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Couple fall in love and agree to meet six years later atop the Empire State Building. (Deborah Kerr)
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An Affair to Remember
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2015
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Irish immigrant arrives in 1950s Brooklyn and promptly falls in love with an American. (Emory Cohen)
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Brooklyn
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1992
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Irishman tries to kill his landlord and ends up on the run to America with the daughter of the man he tried to kill. (Nicole Kidman)
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Far and Away
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1991
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Black man falls in love with Indian woman in 1970s Mississippi. (Denzel Washington)
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Mississippi Masala
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1967
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Man falls for older woman and stops her wedding. (Anne Bancroft)
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The Graduate
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1941
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Card sharps target the heir to millions and then one of them falls in love with him. (Henry Fonda)
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The Lady Eve
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2011
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Politician and dancer know they are meant to be together despite the plans of men in hats with extraordinary abilities and their boss upstairs. (Emily Blunt)
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The Adjustment Bureau
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1958
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A conman arrives in a small Mississippi town and insinuates himself into the town's richest household, where he falls in love.
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The Long Hot Summer
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2017
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A woman formerly shunned from her Orthodox Jewish community for her attraction to a female childhood friend returns, and starts up a relationship with that same woman. (Rachel Weisz)
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Disobedience
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1998
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The bard falls in love and is so inspired, he writes Romeo and Juliet. (Joseph Fiennes)
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Shakespeare in Love
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1982
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Love lifts them up where they belong, but a Navy man lifts a woman off her feet. (Debra Winger)
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An Officer and a Gentleman
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1977
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An unemployed dancer and her 10 year-old daughter are forced by their situation to live with an off-Broadway actor. (Richard Dreyfuss)
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The Goodbye Girl
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1967
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Lawyer uncharacteristically marries a free-spirited woman to comic results. (Jane Fonda)
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Barefoot in the Park
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1984
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Author goes to Colombia to rescue her sister, is thrown together with a rugged, handsome treasure hunter, and writes a book about the experience. (Michael Douglas)
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Romancing the Stone
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1991
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Big city doctor crashes car in a small town on way to California, and falls in love with small town life and a particular legal student. (Julie Warner)
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Doc Hollywood
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1968
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The bard's tale of star-crossed lovers from rival families. (Leonard Whiting)
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Romeo and Juliet
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1995
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Chauffer's daughter has a crush on one of the brothers of the rich family her father works for, but the other brother has something to say about it. (Julia Ormond)
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Sabrina
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2001
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A squire in the midst of changing his stars, dons the guise of a knight and falls in love with a maiden of nobility. (Shannyn Sossamon)
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A Knight's Tale
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