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Year
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Hint
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Answer
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1998
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Angel falls in love with mortal woman. (Meg Ryan)
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City of Angels
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2009
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Wife encounters temporal trouble with traveling husband. (Eric Bana)
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The Time Traveler's Wife
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1996
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Near end of World War II, a nurse hears the story of a burn victim's love affair with a married woman. (Juliette Binoche)
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The English Patient
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2001
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Petite French woman with garden gnome seeks to help others on her journey to love. (Mathieu Kassovitz)
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Amelie
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1992
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Woman takes up cooking when tradition prevents her from being with the one she loves. (Marco Leonardi)
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Like Water for Chocolate
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2016
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Biopic about an interracial couple living in 1960s Virginia. (Ruth Negga)
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Loving
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1987
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Woman falls in love with fiance's brother. (Cher)
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Moonstruck
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2005
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Cowboy just can't quit another cowboy. (Heath Ledger)
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Brokeback Mountain
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2002
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Two friends use the same pseudonym in 1890s London when courting women. Hilarious hijinks ensue. (Reese Witherspoon)
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The Importance of Being Earnest
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1995
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Retelling of Jane Austen tale about three sisters and a second wife left penniless when the husband dies. (Tom Wilkinson)
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Sense and Sensibility
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1995
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Three women attend university in Dublin and one of them falls in love with a student there. (Minnie Driver)
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Circle of Friends
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2006
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Man must deal with wife's institutionalization due to Alzheimers. (Michael Murphy)
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Away from Her
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2002
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Lonely entrepreneur finds love with English woman while he is being extorted by the owner of a phone-sex line. Lots of pudding. (Emily Watson)
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Punch-Drunk Love
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2011
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British student falls in love with an American student just before she gets banned from the United States. (Anton Yelchin)
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Like Crazy
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1960
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Insurance clerk tries to improve his career by letting co-workers use his apartment for liaisons, only to fall in love himself as a result. (Shirley MacLaine)
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The Apartment
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1984
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Man and mermaid fall in love. (Tom Hanks)
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Splash
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1997
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Genius leaves Boston to see about a girl. (Minnie Driver)
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Good Will Hunting
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1987
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Comedy about a man with a big nose who helps others find love, only to find it himself. (Steve Martin)
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Roxanne
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1978
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Musical in which a high school car enthusiast falls for a preppy girl. (Olivia Newton John)
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Grease
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1993
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Busboy with a diseased heart falls wildly in love with a waitress. (Christian Slater)
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Untamed Heart
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1955
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Famous meatball and spaghetti sharing scene. (Barbara Luddy)
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Lady and the Tramp
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2005
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Middle-aged man finds love later than usual in life. (Steve Carell)
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The 40 Year-Old Virgin
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1993
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Widowed man's son call a radio show to try and find him a partner. (Meg Ryan)
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Sleepless in Seattle
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1989
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Ghost of a pilot watches over the love of his life as she falls in love with another man. (Richard Dreyfuss)
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Always
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1951
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English missionary convinces a river boat captain to attack a German ship. (Meg Ryan)
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The African Queen
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2017
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Pakistani comedian falls for grad student and has to meet her family after she falls ill from a mysterious sickness. (Kumail Nanjiani)
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The Big Sick
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2005
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Former rotund man returns to hometown slimmed down and breaks through the friend zone. (Amy Smart)
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Just Friends
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1999
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Bookshop owner falls in love with famous movie star. (Hugh Grant)
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Notting Hill
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2003
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Fiance leaves his comfort zone and finds love where he wasn't expecting it. (Julia Stiles)
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A Guy Thing
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1996
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Sports agent had his secretary at hello. (Tom Cruise)
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Jerry Maguire
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1993
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Man gets stuck in recurring time loop and uses it to learn more about a woman he falls in love with. (Andie MacDowell)
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Groundhog Day
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2000
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NBA wannabes get together after high school, play college ball, break up, turn pro and find each other again. (Omar Epps)
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Love & Basketball
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1957
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Couple fall in love and agree to meet six years later atop the Empire State Building. (Deborah Kerr)
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An Affair to Remember
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2015
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Irish immigrant arrives in 1950s Brooklyn and promptly falls in love with an American. (Emory Cohen)
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Brooklyn
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1992
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Irishman tries to kill his landlord and ends up on the run to America with the daughter of the man he tried to kill. (Nicole Kidman)
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Far and Away
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1991
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Black man falls in love with Indian woman in 1970s Mississippi. (Denzel Washington)
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Mississippi Masala
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1967
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Man falls for older woman and stops her wedding. (Anne Bancroft)
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The Graduate
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1941
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Card sharps target the heir to millions and then one of them falls in love with him. (Henry Fonda)
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The Lady Eve
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2011
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Politician and dancer know they are meant to be together despite the plans of men in hats with extraordinary abilities and their boss upstairs. (Emily Blunt)
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The Adjustment Bureau
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1958
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A conman arrives in a small Mississippi town and insinuates himself into the town's richest household, where he falls in love.
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The Long Hot Summer
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2017
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A woman formerly shunned from her Orthodox Jewish community for her attraction to a female childhood friend returns, and starts up a relationship with that same woman. (Rachel Weisz)
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Disobedience
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1998
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The bard falls in love and is so inspired, he writes Romeo and Juliet. (Joseph Fiennes)
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Shakespeare in Love
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1982
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Love lifts them up where they belong, but a Navy man lifts a woman off her feet. (Debra Winger)
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An Officer and a Gentleman
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1977
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An unemployed dancer and her 10 year-old daughter are forced by their situation to live with an off-Broadway actor. (Richard Dreyfuss)
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The Goodbye Girl
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1967
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Lawyer uncharacteristically marries a free-spirited woman to comic results. (Jane Fonda)
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Barefoot in the Park
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1984
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Author goes to Colombia to rescue her sister, is thrown together with a rugged, handsome treasure hunter, and writes a book about the experience. (Michael Douglas)
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Romancing the Stone
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1991
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Big city doctor crashes car in a small town on way to California, and falls in love with small town life and a particular legal student. (Julie Warner)
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Doc Hollywood
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1968
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The bard's tale of star-crossed lovers from rival families. (Leonard Whiting)
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Romeo and Juliet
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1995
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Chauffer's daughter has a crush on one of the brothers of the rich family her father works for, but the other brother has something to say about it. (Julia Ormond)
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Sabrina
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2001
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A squire in the midst of changing his stars, dons the guise of a knight and falls in love with a maiden of nobility. (Shannyn Sossamon)
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A Knight's Tale
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