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  1. The Best of Romance and Melodrama Movies. by Arayilmar • Created 6 years ago • Modified 6 years ago. List activity. 76K views. 172 this week. Create a new list. List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. 139 titles. Sort by List order. 1. Serendipity. 2001 1h 30m PG-13. 6.8 (122K) Rate. 52 Metascore.

  2. 10 titles. Sort by List order. 1. American Beauty. 1999 2h 2m R. 8.3 (1.2M) Rate. 84 Metascore. A sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend. Director Sam Mendes Stars Kevin Spacey Annette Bening Thora Birch. 2. Crash. 2004 1h 52m R. 7.7 (450K) Rate. 66 Metascore.

  3. 1. E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. 1982 1h 55m PG. 7.9 (440K) Rate. 92 Metascore. A troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape from Earth and return to his home planet. Director Steven Spielberg Stars Henry Thomas Drew Barrymore Peter Coyote. 2. Doctor Zhivago. 1965 3h 17m Approved. 7.9 (83K) Rate. 69 Metascore.

  4. This is a chronological list of melodrama films. Although melodrama can be found in film since its beginnings, it was not identified as a particular genre by film scholars—with its own formal and thematic features—until the 1970s and 1980s, at a time when new methodological approaches within film studies were being adopted, which ...

    • Talk to Her (2002) Pedro Almodovar is a master of the melodrama. Through his stories, he has made audiences laugh, worry, and probably cry time after time after time.
    • Breaking the Waves (1996) Lars von Trier has gained a reputation as an enfant terrible of arthouse cinema. He rarely refrains from portraying violence, sex, mental illness, and other iffy subject matter, and he does it generously.
    • Medea (1969) The classic Greek tragedies are the foundations of melodrama. They literally depended on emotion to tell the story. It is in the way the characters act, in what they say, and in what they do.
    • The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972) Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a true master of the melodramatic. He made more than thirty films in his short career, and the only thing that stopped him was his death.
  5. Jun 24, 2016 · The melodrama film has a largely negative reputation as an irrational, moralizing, joyless “women’s picture.” But the unreality of these movies and all they offer has been given new consideration...

  6. Apr 7, 2024 · There are plenty of ways to define movie melodrama. In broad terms, it's a genre or filmmaking style that uses basic character archetypes and plot structures to tell stories that overemphasize...