Romance

Charade

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  • Title: Charade
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1963’s Charade was an attempt to cash-in on a Hitchcock-like thriller with more than a dash of screwball comedy thrown in similar to North by Northwest. It may not match up to one of Hitchcock’s best films, but Charade (despite some murky plot points) succeeds by throwing interpreter Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) into an uncertain world of spies and thieves after the sudden death of her husband who was in possession of something worth killing him, and her, over.

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Carolina Caroline

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  • Title: Carolina Caroline
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Samara Weaving stars as Caroline, a small town grocery worker smarter than her station but just naive enough to believe Oliver (Kyle Gallner), the charming con man who rolls into town, can provide her with a better life. Losing herself in the attraction of Oliver and the adrenaline of bigger and bigger scores, Carolina Caroline starts out as a breezy con movie romance before things start to go wrong and the consequences for the pair’s actions come due.

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Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!

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  • Title: Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
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Victoria Abril stars as a former porn actress attempting to transition to mainstream films in the final project of the smitten renown director Máximo Espejo (Francisco Rabal) whose lust for the actress is the worst kept secret on set. Our other main character is recently-released mental patient Ricky (Antonio Banderas) obsessed with Marina who kidnaps the actress in hopes of making her fall in love with him. Keeping her bound to the bed, Ricky takes no physical advantage while also attending to her needs including procuring drugs to help with her toothache. However, there is no debate that she is his prisoner.

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The Valet

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  • Title: The Valet
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Valet is an odd film for a romantic comedy. Rather than having two people fall head-over-heels for each other, the 2022 film is about how the time two strangers spend together teaches each of them to stay away from the people that are wrong for them. We start, not surprisingly, with a contrived situation in which, to protect her secret tryst with a married man (Max Greenfield), Olivia (Samara Weaving) convinces a valet named Antonio (Eugenio Derbez) to pretend to be the starlet’s new boyfriend in hopes of putting the paparazzi off the real story.

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