Genre: Romance
Romance puts love at the center and follows it through obstacle to fulfillment — the longing, the conflict, and the connection that makes it all worth it.
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Reincarnation
Two souls keep finding each other across 82,000 years. In Richard Lowe's novel, a 1971 therapy regression in New Haven uncovers a connection that stretches from prehistoric East Africa to the moon, asking what it costs to recognize someone again and again across hundreds of lives. -
The Cold Thing
Edvard has loved Marisol for four months, and tells himself the love is the larger part of him. In the gray hour before dawn he does the arithmetic one last time and finds the truth he buried under the romance: she is not his kind, she is food, and the careful conscience he was so proud of was never tested until now. -
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
Jim Jarmusch asks what eternity feels like after centuries of it. A gorgeous, melancholy 8/10 vampire mood piece reviewed at Master of Worlds. -
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
A department store Santa claims to be the real Kris Kringle, and a lawyer must defend him in court. -
White Christmas (1954)
Two singers join a sister act and follow them to a Vermont inn run by their former Army general, where they stage a Christmas show to save it. -
Holiday Inn (1942)
A singer retires to a Connecticut farm and converts it into an inn that only opens on holidays, leading to a rivalry with his former dance partner. -
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Two Budapest shop employees who can't stand each other are unknowingly falling in love through anonymous correspondence. -
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
An Episcopal bishop praying for help with his cathedral project receives an angel who arrives to assist, though not in the way expected. -
Remember the Night (1940)
A prosecutor takes a shoplifter home to Indiana for Christmas after her trial is delayed, and they fall in love. -
The Apartment (1960)
An ambitious insurance clerk lends his apartment to executives for their affairs, until he falls for the boss's mistress at Christmas.