Love, Unrequited, Unrealized or Unfulfilled

"Clive Owen again with Julia Robert, Natalie Portman and Jude Law. The couplings draw closer then apart then come closer again. Mike Nichols does a great directing job."

"Jeremy Irons will pay the ultimate price for his dangerous, sexual obsession on the dark side with Juliet Binoche, his son's fiance."

"Neil Jordan's film starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore about two lovers and their affair. The breakup seems to be about one thing but then there is another possibility. Based on the Graham Green novel."

"Ralph Fiennes and Krisin Scott-Thomas in the Minghalla Oscar winning film set in WWII. Fiennes has an affair with Thomas but her husband becomes unhinged by it.Serious consequences ensue."

"Nicole Kidman and Robert Downey Jr. show how Diane Arbus came to be attracted to photographing freaks. His character seems wholly made up for the film whereas hers is based mostly on fact."

"Eric Rohmer's film stars Beatrice Romand who impulsively decides that a man she barely knows would make an ideal husband. She throws herself body and sould into his conquest, leaving her old boy friend in the dust. Hilarious."

"James Mason is an older man who is smitten by a young recently pubescent teen, Lolita. Stanley Kubrick takes liberties with the novel and makes it into his own film. It is a fascinating study of the universality of the May-December attraction. Based on Vladimir Nabakov's novel."

"Jeremy Irons is an older man who is smitten by a young recently pubescent teen, Lolita. This second, newer film of the classic novel is truer to the novel than the first version. It is a fascinating study of the universality of the May-December attraction. Based on Vladimir Nabakov's novel."

"Bill Murray as a middle aged entertainer in Tokyo to shoot a commercial who is attracted to a young girl, Scarlett Johanssen."

"A young girl is in school in French Indochina when she falls for a wealthy Asian man who can only have a brief affair with her as he must marry an Asian girl selected by his family. Based on Marguerite Duras's memoir of her affair."

"Jean-Paul Belmondo's mail order bride is more than he could have ever expected (Catherine Deneuve) and she captivates him and then scams him. Remade in USA as ORIGINAL SIN with Jolie and Banderas."

"Albert Brooks' s film starring himself shows why his modern life is incompatible with also having a romance in it."

"Ralph Fiennes is attracted to Liv Tyler and duels another man over her, killing the man."

"Ran as a tv series in Sweden and a very long movie in the USA. Absolutely realistic version of the ups and downs of two educated people in a long term marriage in Sweden. Liv Ullmann plays the wife."

"Gwyneth Paltrow falls for married William Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) and his art ultimately makes her a free spirit heading off to the New World on her own. Oscar winner."

"Helena Bonham Carter gets her boyfriend, Linus Roache to romance a wealthy, dying American so that they can end up with her money. Based on the Henry James novel."

"Francois Truffaut's film stars Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant who find themselves married to other people but living next door to one another. Problem is that they used to be lovers and the fire reignites."