romantic movies that aren't overly sentimental

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Good ones, you know?

― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:09 (twenty years ago)

Amelie?

― Mickey (modestmickey), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:11 (twenty years ago)

In the Mood for Love / 2046
Live Flesh (?)
Fisher King
Say Anything

― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

Flirting / The Year My Voice Broke

― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:14 (twenty years ago)

me and you and everyone we know
true romance

― no bones, Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:18 (twenty years ago)

L'Atalante

― remy (x Jeremy), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:19 (twenty years ago)

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― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:21 (twenty years ago)

Groundhog Day.

― StanM (StanM), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:32 (twenty years ago)

when harry met sally

― geoff (gcannon), Sunday, 8 January 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)

I hope you're not implying sentimentality is a bad thing, especially in a romantic movie. Anyway, here some favourite romances of mine, of the non-sappy kind:

As Good As It Gets
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (suprisingly down-to-earth for a musical)
Before Sunrise & Before Sunset
The Philadelphia Story
La Strada (great film, but not really an uplifiting one)
Show Me Love (aka Fucking Åmål)
Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Delicatessen
Shrek (well okay, it is rather sentimental, but in the best way)
Jules et Jim
Beautiful Thing

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 8 January 2006 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Sur mes levres, Crossing Delancey (?)

― youn, Monday, 9 January 2006 02:19 (twenty years ago)

the shop around the corner
bringing up baby
the awful truth

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 9 January 2006 02:21 (twenty years ago)

Brokeback Mountain.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:15 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and Lost in Translation.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:17 (twenty years ago)

the awful truth

i watched this today!

― miss michel legrand (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:21 (twenty years ago)

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

― Andrew (enneff), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:23 (twenty years ago)

Good one, Andrew.

Casablanca, maybe? It's quite soppy, but there's a hard-bitten edge to it that saves it from outright sentimentality.

― chap who would dare to work for the man (chap), Monday, 9 January 2006 03:25 (twenty years ago)

40 Year Old Virgin

― yeah yeah yeah, Monday, 9 January 2006 08:11 (twenty years ago)

in the realm of the senses

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:16 (twenty years ago)

tropical malady and Kill Bill 2 spring most readily to my mind.
also:
Days of Heaven (1978, d. Terence Malick), In the Cut (2003, d. Jane Campion), Butterfly Kiss (1995, d. Michael Winterbottom), By Hook or by Crook, Madagascar Skin, Solyaris in a way, though yergh I hate the American remake that really did just seem to turn it into a romantic movie (complete with happy ending).

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? Annie Hall?
the orignal The Getaway is quite romantic.

This list strikes me as depressingly couply/monogamous: anyone think of good romance in film that is somehow outside of monogamy (not films that are just critiques of monogamy).

― el.k, Monday, 9 January 2006 12:53 (twenty years ago)

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― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:03 (twenty years ago)

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― ambrose (ambrose), Monday, 9 January 2006 13:05 (twenty years ago)

ten years pass...

has anyone seen The Light Between Oceans? Fassbender-Vikander-Cianfrance

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 15:02 (nine years ago)

(this seems to be hugely sentimental, but I couldn't think of where else to put my inquiry)

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 20 September 2016 15:03 (nine years ago)

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