Romance

Juli Baker is certain Bryce Loski is special from the moment they meet, while Bryce spends years trying to keep his spirited neighbor at a distance. As they grow older, their opinions begin to reverse, forcing each to reconsider first impressions and quiet acts of courage.

Rob Reiner’s coming-of-age romance follows the same relationship from both young people’s viewpoints. Madeline Carroll and Callan McAuliffe lead an ensemble that includes Rebecca De Mornay, Anthony Edwards, Penelope Ann Miller, Aidan Quinn and John Mahoney.

After leaving a mental health facility, Lee Holloway returns to her family and takes a secretarial job with exacting attorney E. Edward Grey. Their employer-employee relationship develops into an unconventional romance as Lee tries to define her needs and Grey struggles with intimacy and control.

Steven Shainberg directs Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader and Jeremy Davies from Erin Cressida Wilson's screenplay, adapted from Mary Gaitskill's short story. The film combines dark comedy, drama and romance, making Lee's perspective—not simply the office power dynamic—the center of the story.

Joe Wright's Pride & Prejudice follows Elizabeth Bennet as her quick judgments collide with the reserve of wealthy newcomer Fitzwilliam Darcy. Family pressure, class expectations and misleading first impressions repeatedly separate them, while Jane Bennet's relationship with Charles Bingley exposes the social forces shaping every courtship around Longbourn.

Keira Knightley and Matthew Macfadyen lead an ensemble that includes Rosamund Pike, Donald Sutherland, Brenda Blethyn and Judi Dench. AFI records the film's Los Angeles and New York openings on November 11, 2005, a 127-minute runtime and a PG rating; Prime Video currently lists U.S. UHD rental and purchase options.

TiMER imagines a near-present Los Angeles where a wrist implant counts down to the moment its wearer will meet a destined partner. Oona, played by Emma Caulfield, has built her life around that promise, but her device remains blank because her supposed soulmate has not received an implant.

Writer-director Jac Schaeffer turns the speculative premise into a romantic comedy about certainty, choice and the risks people avoid when technology appears to know their future. Oona’s growing connection with musician Mikey conflicts with the device’s prediction, while her sister Steph offers a very different response to the same system.

Baby Mama stars Tina Fey as Kate Holbrook, a successful executive whose plans to become a parent lead her to hire Angie Ostrowski, an unpredictable surrogate played by Amy Poehler. Their uneasy arrangement becomes a mismatched-roommates comedy when Angie moves into Kate’s carefully ordered home and neither woman proves fully prepared for what follows.

Writer-director Michael McCullers builds the story around Fey and Poehler’s contrasting comic styles while Greg Kinnear, Dax Shepard, Romany Malco, Steve Martin and Sigourney Weaver fill out the ensemble. Beneath the escalating misunderstandings, the film explores friendship, control and the different forms a family can take.

Seventeen-year-old Bella Swan leaves sunny Arizona to live with her father in rain-soaked Forks, Washington. At school she is drawn to Edward Cullen, whose speed, strength and strange absences point to a secret: he and his family are vampires who choose not to hunt humans. Their connection deepens even as Edward struggles to keep Bella safe from himself.

When a visiting trio of vampires catches Bella’s scent, James turns the romance into a hunt stretching beyond Forks. Catherine Hardwicke’s adaptation balances supernatural suspense with Bella’s outsider perspective, led by Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, while Billy Burke, Peter Facinelli, Ashley Greene and Cam Gigandet anchor the family and rival threats around them.

Musician Peter Bretter is blindsided when television star Sarah Marshall ends their long relationship for rock singer Aldous Snow. Hoping distance will help, he books a solo holiday at a Hawaiian resort and discovers Sarah and Aldous staying there too.

Resort employee Rachel Jansen helps Peter reconnect with life beyond the breakup, but constant encounters with his former partner keep reopening it. The trip becomes a test of whether Peter can stop defining himself through Sarah and finish the creative work he has put aside.