Karen Blixen's coffee farm and her affair with Denys Finch Hatton, in the Ngong Hills.
A mute cleaner falls for an amphibian man held in a Cold War lab.
A racing driver and a script girl meet at their children's school in Deauville.
Audrey Hepburn's flower girl and Rex Harrison's phonetician; the rain in Spain.
Three provincial girls in 1958 Moscow, and the same three twenty years on.
A deserter in 1931 Spain is taken in by a painter and his four daughters.
An insurance clerk lends his flat to his bosses for their affairs; Wilder at his most bitter and warm.
A Nobel-winning poet returns to Gijon and the woman he left forty years before.
Belle Epoque Paris and a courtesan-in-training, in Lerner and Loewe songs.
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton fall in and out of love in a film that talks to the camera.
Romeo and Juliet as rival gangs on the Upper West Side, danced by Jerome Robbins.
Orpheus and Eurydice during Carnival in Rio, with a bossa nova score that went round the world.
Catherine Deneuve as a rubber-plantation owner in French Vietnam as it starts to end.
A London couturier meets a waitress who will not be arranged.
A painter is hired to paint a bride in secret on a Breton island in 1770.
A summer in northern Italy, a visiting graduate student, and a father's speech.
A runaway heiress and a reporter on a bus; the romantic comedy blueprint, and the first clean sweep of the big five.
A rage-prone salesman, a pudding coupon scheme and a harmonium left in the street.
A lonely writer falls in love with an operating system, in a very warm Los Angeles.
Two Wyoming sheepherders and twenty years of a love neither can name.
Gene Kelly dances a seventeen-minute Gershwin ballet through painted Paris.
Rick, Ilsa, the letters of transit and the most quoted script ever written.
Scarlett O'Hara, the burning of Atlanta and the biggest box office in inflation-adjusted history.
A bookish girl follows a cat through Tokyo and decides to write.
Coppola's operatic, entirely in-camera vampire film.
Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong fall in love by never saying so.
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