romance – Old Movies – Free & Full

Curly Top (1935)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:19:02 +0000

1h 15min. // Wealthy Edward Morgan becomes charmed with a curly-haired orphan and her pretty older sister Mary and arranges to adopt both under the alias of “Mr. Jones.” As he spends more time with them, he soon finds himself falling in love with Mary.

Directed by: Irving Cummings

Writing Credits: Patterson McNutt (screenplay), Arthur J. Beckhard (screenplay)

Starring: Shirley Temple (as Elizabeth Blair), John Boles (as Edward Morgan) and Rochelle Hudson (as Mary Blair)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Venice Film Festival 1935. Best Foreign Film. Irving Cummings.

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September Affair (1950)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 13:17:33 +0000

1h. 44min. // An industrialist (Joseph Cotten) and a pianist (Joan Fontaine) meet on a trip and fall in love. Through a quirk of fate, they are reported dead in a crash though they weren’t on the plane. This gives them the opportunity to live together free from their previous lives. Unfortunately, this artificial arrangement leads to greater and greater stress. Eventually the situation collapses when they come to pursue their original, individual interests without choosing a common path.

Directed by: William Dieterle

Writing Credits: Fritz Rotter (story), Andrew Solt (screenplay), Robert Thoeren (screenplay)

Starring: Joan Fontaine (as Marianne ‘Manina’ Stuart), Joseph Cotten (as David Lawrence) and Françoise Rosay (as Maria Salvatini).

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Awards:

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1952. Best Original Score. Victor Young.

NOMINATED. Venice Film Festival 1950. William Dieterle.

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The Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie (1969)

Charlotte Movies — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:17:18 +0000

1h. 56min. // A headstrong young teacher in a private school in 1930s Edinburgh ignores the curriculum and influences her impressionable 12 year old charges with her over-romanticized world view.

Directed by: Ronald Neame

Writing Credits: Muriel Spark (novel), Jay Presson Allen (screenplay)

Starring: Maggie Smith (as Jean Brodie), Robert Stephens (as Teddy Lloyd), Pamela Franklin (as Sandy), Gordon Jackson (as Gordon Lowther) and Celia Johnson (as Miss Mackay).

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1970. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Maggie Smith.

WON. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Original Song. Rod McKuen for the song “Jean”.

WON. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

WON. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Celia Johnson.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Pamela Franklin.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1970. Top Ten Films.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1969. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. Cannes Film Festival 1969. Palme d’Or. Ronald Neame.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1970. Best Music, Original Song. Rod McKuen for the song “Jean”.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Motion Picture – Drama.

NOMINATED. Golden Globes, USA 1970. Best Actress – Drama. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Pamela Franklin.

NOMINATED. Laurel Awards 1970. Female Dramatic Performance. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1970. Best Actress. Maggie Smith.

NOMINATED. National Society of Film Critics Awards, USA 1970. Best Supporting Actress. Celia Johnson.

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America, USA 1970. Best Drama Adapted from Another Medium. Jay Presson Allen.

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Since You Went Away (1944)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:17:14 +0000

2h 57min. // With her husband away to fight in World War II, a housewife struggles to care for their two daughters – and a pair of lodgers who have moved in – alone.

Directed by: John Cromwell

Writing Credits: Margaret Buell Wilder (novel), David O. Selznick (screenplay)

Starring: Claudette Colbert (as Anne Hilton), Jennifer Jones (as Jane Hilton), Joseph Cotten (as Lt. Tony Willett) and Shirley Temple (as Brig Hilton)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture. Max Steiner.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Claudette Colbert.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Actor in a Supporting Role. Monty Woolley.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Jennifer Jones.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Stanley Cortez, Lee Garmes.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Film Editing. Hal C. Kern, James E. Newcom.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1945. Best Effects, Special Effects. Jack Cosgrove (photographic), Arthur Johns (sound).

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This Above All (1942)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:17:02 +0000

1h. 50min. // Although she comes from an aristocratic family, beautiful Prudence Cathaway defies convention by joining the WAAFs and becoming romantically involved with an AWOL soldier.

Directed by: Anatole Litvak

Writing Credits: Eric Knight (novel), R.C. Sherriff (screenplay)

Starring: Tyrone Power (as Clive Briggs), Joan Fontaine (as Prudence Cathaway) and Thomas Mitchell (as Monty)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White. Richard Day, Joseph C. Wright, Thomas Little.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Cinematography, Black-and-White. Arthur C. Miller.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Sound, Recording. Edmund H. Hansen.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Film Editing. Walter Thompson.

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The Tamarind Seed (1974)

Charlotte Movies — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:17:01 +0000

2h. 5min. // During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.

Directed by: Blake Edwards

Writing Credits: Blake Edwards (screenplay), Evelyn Anthony (novel)

Starring: Julie Andrews (as Judith Farrow), Omar Sharif (as Feodor Sverdlov) and Anthony Quayle (as Jack Loder).

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Awards:

NOMINATED. BAFTA Awards 1975. Best Supporting Actress. Sylvia Syms.

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Centennial Summer (1946)

Charlotte Movies — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h 42min. // In 1876 Philadelphia, two sisters, Julia and Edith Rogers, fall in love with a Frenchman , Philippe Lascalles, who’s come to town to prepare the French pavilion for the Centennial exposition.

Directed by: Otto Preminger

Writing Credits: Michael Kanin (screenplay), Albert E. Idell (novel)

Starring: Jeanne Crain (as Julia Rogers), Cornel Wilde (as Philippe Lascalles), and Linda Darnell (as Edith Rogers)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Original Song. Jerome Kern (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (lyrics) for the song “All Through the Day”.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1947. Best Music, Scoring of a Musical Picture. Alfred Newman.

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To The Shores Of Tripoli (1942)

Charlotte Movies — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 22min. // Life at the Marine Training Base in San Diego on the eve of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone

Writing Credits: Lamar Trotti (screenplay), Steve Fisher (story)

Starring: John Payne (as Chris Winters), Maureen O’Hara (as Lt. Mary Carter) and Randolph Scott (as Sgt. Dixie Smith)

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Awards:

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1943. Best Cinematography, Color. Edward Cronjager and William V. Skall.

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The Snows Of Kilimanjaro (1952)

Charlotte Movies — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h. 54min. // Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the shadow of Mount Kilamanjaro.

Directed by: Henry King

Writing Credits: Casey Robinson (screenplay), Ernest Hemingway (short story)

Starring: Gregory Peck (as Harry Street), Susan Hayward (as Helen) and Ava Gardner (as Cynthia Green).

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1952. Top Ten Films.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1953. Best Cinematography, Color. Leon Shamroy.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1953. Best Art Direction-Set Decoration, Color. Lyle R. Wheeler, John DeCuir, Thomas Little, Paul S. Fox.

NOMINATED. Directors Guild of America, USA 1953. Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures. Henry King.

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Rebecca (1940)

George — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 13:16:01 +0000

1h 23min. // A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Writing Credits: Daphne Du Maurier (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay) and Joan Harrison (screenplay)

Starring: Laurence Olivier (as “Maxim” de Winter), Joan Fontaine (as Mrs. de Winter), George Sanders (as Jack Favell) and Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Danvers)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Top Ten Films.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. Joan Fontaine.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. George Sanders.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Picture.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Cinematography, Black and White. George Barnes.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2009. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Laurence Olivier.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Joan Fontaine.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Judith Anderson.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Director. Alfred Hitchcock.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Writing, Screenplay. Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Art Direction, Black and White. Lyle R. Wheeler.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Film Editing. Hal C. Kern.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Effects, Special Effects. Jack Cosgrove (photographic)
Arthur Johns (sound).

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Music, Original Score. Franz Waxman.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1940. Best Actress. Joan Fontaine.