Cruise bounces through this romantic spy adventure with smooth-talking charm, ninja spy skills, and Diaz transforms from damsel in distress to partner in action with enthusiastic glee.
Category: Romance
‘From Here to Eternity’ – love in the time of World War II on Criterion Channel
Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, and Montgomery Clift star in the Oscar-winning classic romantic drama set in the days leading up to Pearl Harbor.
‘Waitress’ with Keri Russell on Hulu
Before it was a Broadway musical, ‘Waitress’ was a sweet romantic drama from filmmaker Adrienne Shelly, costarring Nathan Fillion.
‘Castle: Complete Series’ on Hulu
Nathan Fillion and Stana Katic star in the breezy, self-aware show that stirs humor, romantic heat, and playful mysteries in the TV crime procedural.
‘Crimson Peak’ – Guillermo Del Toro’s Gothic ghost story on Netflix
Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain star in this Gothic romance with notes of horror and bathed in the unreal and magical colors of a baroque Italian horror.
John Cleese falls for ‘A Fish Called Wanda’ on Hulu and Paramount+
Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, and Michael Palin costar in this zippy mix of caper comedy, sexy romantic comedy, and Pythonesque zaniness, one of the funniest films of the 1980s.
Underdog Oscar winner ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ on Hulu
Danny Boyle’s underdog movie about a slum kid in India who defies all odds was the most unabashedly, tragically, rapturously romantic film of 2008.
‘Enchanted April’ – an Italian escape on Amazon Prime
Four women break out of their confined lives and roles when they rent a Italian villa in this romantic drama of reawakening. Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Polly Walker, and Joan Plowright costar with the beautiful Mediterranean landscape.
‘Cluny Brown’ on Criterion Channel
Ernst Lubitsch brings “the Lubitsch touch” to this light but witty romantic comedy starring Charles Boyer and Jennifer Jones.
Joss Whedon does ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ on Hulu
This modern dress version of the Shakespeare comedy was made with Whedon’s old friends and collaborators just after shooting ‘The Avengers.’