2019 Movies : Romance

With Mia Wasikowska • Laia Costa • Wendell Pierce • Marin Ireland • Christopher Abbott • Maria Dizzia • Nicolas Pesce

Reed (Christopher Abbott) is going on a business trip. He kisses his wife and infant son goodbye, but in lieu of a suitcase filled with clothes, he's packed a toothbrush and a murder kit. Everything is meticulously planned: check into a hotel and kill an unsuspecting victim. Only then will he rid himself of his devious impulses and continue to be a good husband and father. But Reed gets more than he bargained for with Jackie (Mia Wasikowska), an alluring call girl who arrives at his room. First, they relax and get in the mood, but when there’s an unexpected disruption, the balance of control begins to sway back and forth between the two. Is he seeing things? Who's playing whom? Before the night is over, a feverish nightmare will unfold, and Reed and Jackie will seal their bond in blood.

With Keira Knightley • Mickey Rourke • Luke Wilson • Jim Sturgess • Jenna Dewan • Diego Luna • Sophie Turner • Iwan Rheon • Helen Mirren • Nolan Funk • Charlotte Le Bon • Jack Huston • Til Schweiger • Massy Tadjedin • Dianna Agron • Josef Rusnak • Dennis Gansel • David Vernon • Toni Garrn • Peter Chelsom • Dani Levy • Claus Clausen • Sibel Kekilli • Neil La Bute • Fernando Eimbcke • Justin Franklin • Daniel Lwowski • Stephanie Martin

The ensemble story is set on the streets of Berlin, and explores how romance is expressed through love won, lost and everything in between.

With Ryan Eggold • David Wain • Gary Cole • Judith Godreche • Archie Borders • Ary Abittan

A bourbon salesman (Walsh) fighting off 50, unexpectedly proposes and is rejected by his best friend’s 24-year-old daughter under the Eiffel Tower. The soul crushing event sparks a wine-fueled ‘coming of middle age’ jaunt across the French countryside, a surprising friendship with a local footballer (Eggold) and sparks romantic possibilities with a beautiful and independent French woman (Godrèche).

With Ben Mendelsohn • Alice Eve • Brandon K. Hogan • Billy Crystal • Scott Caan • Jennifer Grey • Jamie Dornan • Scott Lastaiti • Emma Forrest • Lola Kirke • Jemima Kirke • Luke Daniels

Follows the affair between Andrea (Jemima Kirke), a former teen prodigy turned heroin addict who is trying to be a writer now that she's sober, and Nick (Dornan), a writer who's found success with his memoir of war-time bravery, which sees him showered in wealth and women.

With Christophe Honoré • Vincent Lacoste • Pierre Deladonchamps • Denis Podalydès

Paris, 1993. Jacques (Pierre Deladonchamps) is a semi-renowned writer and single father in his thirties trying to maintain his sense of romance and humor in spite of the turmoil in his life and the world. While on a work trip to Brittany, he meets Arthur (Vincent LaCoste), an aspiring filmmaker in his early twenties, who is experiencing a sexual awakening and eager to get out of his parochial life. Arthur becomes instantly smitten with the older man.

With Lew Temple • Austin Nichols • Lane Garrison • Ali Cobrin • Ty Roberts

The story of Jim McNeely (Lane Garrison), a young man thrust into the vibrant and brutal West Texas oilfields in 1939. In a state gushing with oil and filled with ambition, McNeely settles into a small-town community that is slowly overcoming the trauma of the Great Depression. The formidable path before him is riddled with obstacles – overbearing bosses who try to keep him down, powerful oilmen who are reluctant to invest in a fresh face, and women who see salvation in his charms – but he finds a glimmer of hope with his first loves: new wife Lee Montgomery (Ali Cobrin) and drilling for oil. With everything falling into place to ascend to the top of the oil chain, McNeely stumbles upwards through his success and in turn jeopardizes his desperate longing to conquer this brave new world of influence and wealth.