Playlist: love story

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If Beale Street Could Talk

After her fiance is falsely imprisoned, a pregnant African-American woman sets out to clear his name and prove his innocence

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Call Me by Your Name

In 1980s Italy, a relationship begins between seventeen-year-old teenage Elio and the older adult man hired as his father’s research assistant.

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Lady Bird

In the hilarious drama-comedy, Christine, who calls herself “Lady Bird”, struggles with the cross-pressure of her school’s rigid traditions, caring parents, first heartaches, and big dreams for the future. Lady Bird is on a collision course with her strong-willed nurse mother. This works tirelessly to keep the family afloat after the father becomes unemployed. Both are carved from the same wood and have the same bull’s head.

The story, which takes place at the beginning of the 21st century, tells a touching story about human relationships that shape us, beliefs that define us, and a place called home, the meaning of which is irreplaceable.

Directed by Greta Gerwig. As actors, e.g. Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, and Tracy Letts.

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The Danish Girl 

A touching love story based on the lives of Lili Elbe and Gerda Wegener. 1926 Copenhagen-based artist Einar Wegener, who is married to Gerda Wegener, is known for his landscape paintings. Gerda is also an artist, less well known, but employed as a portrait painter of celebrities. Their marriage is strong and full of love.

Everything changes when Gerda asks her husband to pose as a model and wear a woman’s outfit to complete her painting. The experience changes the couple’s entire life. Einar notices that when he is Lili, he is able to realize himself at his truest and begins to live as a woman. Gerda, on the other hand, finds a new muse in Lili and matures into a new blossoming as an artist. The couple also has to face the prejudices of the surrounding society. They leave their home country for a more open-minded Paris. Again and again, Gerda shows her support for Lili.

Directed by Tom Hooper. As actors, e.g. Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander and Amber Heard. Movie won an Oscar from Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role.

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Five Feet Apart

Stella is like any 17-year-old – she loves her friends, her phone and her computer. But unlike other teenagers, Stella has to spend most of her time in the hospital due to a serious illness. Due to cystic fibrosis, her life is dominated by routines and numerous different rules. However, Stella’s self-discipline is put to the test when she gets to know another patient and fateful companion, the charming and rebellious Will.

Stella and Will immediately feel attracted to each other, but rules come between them: to avoid the spread of bacteria, they must not get closer than five feet to each other. Exposure to each other’s microbes could be fatal for both. How to love another if one touch is too much? Directed by Justin Baldoni. As actors, e.g. Haley Lu Richardson, Cole Sprouse and Moises Arias.

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Rocketman

Rocketman tells the inspiring story of Elton John’s breakthrough years, when shy piano virtuoso Reginald Dwight becomes an international superstar. The film depicts Sir Elton John’s stages from childhood to the beginning of the 90s. Genius child developed into a music superstar, whose life was overshadowed by difficult relationships with his parents, low self-esteem, uncertainty about his own sexuality, various addictions and bulimia. The brutality of the music industry and the difficulty of loving also come to the fore in relation to the manager boyfriend.

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– Elton John is portrayed by actor Taron Egerton.
– Jamie Bell: Bernie Taupin, Elton John’s long-time collaborator and lyricist.
– Richard Madden: John Reid, Elton John’s former manager and romantic partner.
– Bryce Dallas Howard: Sheila Eileen, Elton John’s mother.

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Anna Karenina

Based on Leo Tolstoy’s unforgettable classic, the film brings the greatest love novel in world literature to the big screen. Anna Karenina’s (Keira Knightley) marriage to high-ranking St. Petersburg official Alexei Karenin (Jude Law) is shaken when Anna meets Count Vronsky (Aaron Taylor-Johnson). The lovers surrender to the whirlwinds of passion, but their happiness soon turns into a tragedy. The story is also a description of tsarist Russia in the 1870s and the state society, which shackles the participants of the triangle drama in its framework. The film was directed by Joe Wright.