These films aren't your ordinary love stories. Enjoy a myriad of cinema that explores romance, relationships and all the emotions and complications that come with them. Featuring a range of films exploring sweet love and romance, what it means to be hurt and the consequences of revenge, and documentaries about political and societal barriers. No matter what you are in the mood for, the No Ordinary Love Collection will have a film for you.
"Writer-director Kevin Noland effectively utilizes his fine young cast and the natural beauty and rich culture of northern Spain in amiably posing a timeless question of youth." - The Los Angeles Times
Palm Springs International Film Festival
Seattle International Film Festival
Chris McKinley, ...
Winner Canada Shorts Film Festival
HollyShorts Film Festival
Santa Monica International Film Festival
A sex toy mishap leads to a night in the emergency room where a just broken-up couple are forced to confront their issues on love and relationships.
Canada - 2018 - 14m
Directed By: Corey Shurg...
"a heartbreaking and unusually intimate account of a relationship impeded by geopolitics." The Atlantic
Tribeca Film Festival
CPH:DOX
Göteborg International Film Festival
The recently married couple Jasmin and Assi are forced to live separated. She lives in Berlin, he in Ramallah. They want des...
Tribeca Film Festival
Winner Toronto International Film and Video Awards
Marcos is a lonely, Argentinean computer whiz living in New York City. Marcos finds comfort in gadgets and technology networks and is isolated from most human interaction or any type of social network. In an attempt to make...
Hong Kong International Film Festival
Nara International Film Festival
Iranian filmmaker Ida Panahandeh directs this Japanese drama focussing on Tatsuya Nikaido, a middle-aged divorcee who runs an agricultural company and lives in a suburb with his daughter and mother. After his only son's death...
Newport Beach Film Festival
Canadian Film Festival
Blood in the Snow Festival
Mark is a fool for love. With the help of his closest confidant, Kyle, he decides to go after the woman of his dreams. When Katie notices a creepy figure lurking outside her workplace, she hurries home. These clashing ...
Tribeca Film Festival
Winner Brooklyn International Film Festival
Winner Sacramento International Film Festival
Cambridge Film Festival
Jake Hunt enjoys life to the fullest in Thailand, while his shy brother Oliver deals with his own depressions back home in the USA. Their dominant mother wants ...
"...a sensitive and tender observational portrait of falling for the first time - for the same gender - as experienced by two female co-eds." New York Magazine
Berlin International Film Festival
Chicago Film Festival
Seattle Film Festival
Love. It just happens. No rules. It’s Alex’s first year ...
Chicago International Film Festival
Winner Midwest Independent Film Festival
Calgary International Film Festival
A gritty noir crime drama about Nick (Pellgrino), a recent parolee, who is abandoned by his ex-wife and barred from seeing his young daughter. Trying to move on in his new life, Nick ...
'a moving statement on war and the confining artificiality of borders' - Variety
Winner Tribeca Film Festival
Rotterdam International Film Festival
Melbourne International Film Festival
Actress and writer Ayca falls in love with actor Hama Ali, famous for his performance as Iraq’s version of Su...
The Little Tramp heads to Alaska to try his luck at searching for gold but gets more than he bargained for when he’s forced to deal with blizzards, criminals, and falling in love.
USA - 1925 - 1h 28m
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin
Written By: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin
In fifteenth century Paris, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen. Meanwhile, a revolution is brewing… This film version of the Victor Hugo novel Notre Dame de Paris was a super-duper-spectacular as only Hollywood of the 1920s could make them, but it is never so large that it dw...
Venice Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival
In her only Technicolor film, Janet Gaynor stars as Esther Blodgett, the small-town girl who dreams of Hollywood stardom, a role later played by Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Lady Gaga in the 1954, 1976, and 2018 remakes. Esther meets Danny McGuire ...
Edinburgh International Film Festival
AFI Cinematheque
Irene, an eccentric, wealthy Manhattanite, wins a society-ball scavenger hunt after finding a “forgotten man”—an apparent down-and-out drifter—at a dump. She hires him as the family butler and soon falls for him, driving her to to both woo G...
After Regina Lampert (Audrey Hepburn) falls for the dashing Peter Joshua (Cary Grant) on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World War II cronies, Tex (J...
Locarno International Film Festival
Berlin International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival
When the timid, middle-aged Chris Cross rescues a street-walking bad girl named Kitty from the gutters of Greenwich Village, he plunges headlong into a whirlpool of lust, larceny, deception, and revenge.
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"Perhaps the funniest, certainly the fastest talkie comedy ever made." Time Out
Toronto International Film Festival Cinematheque
98% on Rotten Tomatoes -- Certified Fresh
Stockholm International Film Festival
When hard-charging New York newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) discovers that ...
flEXiff Film Festival Winner
Montreal World Film Festival
In 1400, four intertwined stories explore the notion of love in a hotel, how important love is, to what extremes we go to make it happen, but in difference situations and circumstances, the outcomes may be more than what we bargain for.
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SXSW Film Festival
Fantasia Film Festival
A man, who is having an affair with a young woman, gets home late as usual. But that night, he finds something wrong with his wife Satomi. Since then, he gets strayed into her dark side, the "labyrinth".
Japan - 2018 - 14m
Directed By: Reiki Tsuno
Writt...
Tokyo International Film Festival
Writer director Mayu Akiyama’s debut film is a fresh and surprising romantic drama focussed on an unusual relationship. When aspiring journalist Nasa meets 'friend-for-hire' Sota she decides to engage his services with a view to writing about the experience for ...
