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Now showing — The Romantic · 5 works

  • The Romantic Music · 2020s

    The Romantic is a 2026 album associated with Bruno Mars and Atlantic Records. It keeps the music field anchored in recognizable listening lines rather than anonymous album slots.

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  • Bloom Into You Anime · 2010s

    Yuu Koito has always been entranced with romantic shoujo manga and the lyrics of love songs. She patiently waits for the wings of love to sprout and send her heart aflutter on the day that she finally receives a confession. Yet, when her classmate from junior high declares his love for her during their graduation, s...

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  • The Green Ray Film · 1980s

    The Green Ray, released in North America as Summer, is a 1986 French romantic drama film written and directed by Éric Rohmer. It is the fifth instalment in Rohmer's "Comedies and Proverbs" series. The film was inspired by the novel of the same name by Jules Verne. It was shot in France on 16 mm film and much of the...

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  • The Watermelon Woman Film · 1990s

    The Watermelon Woman is a 1996 American romantic comedy-drama film written, directed, and edited by Cheryl Dunye. The first feature film directed by a Black lesbian, it stars Dunye as Cheryl, a young Black lesbian working a day job in a video store while trying to make a film about Fae Richards, a Black actress from...

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  • Heartstopper Television · 2020s

    Heartstopper is a British coming-of-age romantic comedy-drama television series created by British author Alice Oseman for Netflix, based on her graphic novels and webcomic series of the same name. The series follows the lives Charlie Spring, a gay teen boy who falls in love with classmate Nick (Nicholas) Nelson, wh...

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