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Tag: Romance

  • Blu-ray Release: Picture of a Nymph

    Blu-ray Release Date: March 10, 2026
    Price: Blu-ray $34.97
    Studio: 88 Films/MVD

    In the 1987 fantastical comedy-romance adventure Picture of a Nymph, Shih Erh (Yuen Biao, The Champsons), a Taoist monk disciple, takes in a scholar named Tsui Hung-Chuen (Lawrence Ng, To Be Number One) after he inadvertently burned down his house after battling a demon.

    Shih Erh and his master Wu Men-Chu (Ma Wu, Kickboxer) house and attempt to protect Tsui from the demons and spirits that lurk nearby; however, Tsui encounters a benevolent female ghost named Mo Chiu (Joey Wang, A Chinese Ghost Story), who is confined to the hands of the wicked King Ghost (Elizabeth Lee, Widow Warriors). As Tsui falls in love with Mo Chiu, he paints a portrait of her, which the spirit uses to conceal herself from the King Ghost’s clutches.

    Directed by Wu Ma, the new Blu-ray incarnation of the Hong Kong production from 88 Films contains the following features:

    • LIMITED EDITION RIGID SLIP CASE WITH NEW ARTWORK BY SEAN LONGMORE
    • LIMITED EDITION 40 PAGE PERFECT BOUND BOOK
    • LIMITED EDITION PREMIUM ARTCARD
    • BRAND NEW 2K RESTORATION FROM THE ORIGINAL NEGATIVE
    • REMASTERED ORIGINAL CANTONESE MONOAURAL SOUNDTRACK
    • NEWLY TRANSLATED ENGLISH SUBTITLES
    • AUDIO COMMENTARY BY FRANK DJENG (NY ASIAN FILM FESTIVAL)
    • AUDIO COMMENTARY BY DAVID WEST
    • IMAGE GALLERY
    • ORIGINAL TRAILER

     

    Buy or Rent Picture of a Nymph

  • 4K UHD, DVD, Blu-ray, Digital Release: Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

    4K UHD, Blu-ray, Digital & DVD Release Date: available now
    Price: 4K UHD + Blu-ray $27.95, Blu-ray $22.95, DVD $17.95
    Studio: Universal

    Based on Carnival Films’ Emmy award-winning television series, Downton Abbey: The Grand FInale brings 15 unforgettable years of heartfelt drama to a close and has been billed by Universal as the must-have story of the season.

    The cinematic return of the global phenomenon follows the Crawley family and their staff as they enter the 1930s. When Mary finds herself at the center of a public scandal and the family faces financial trouble, the entire household grapples with the threat of social disgrace. The Crawleys must embrace change as the staff prepares for a new chapter with the next generation leading Downton Abbey into the future.

    The movie features the familiar faces of returning cast members Hugh Bonneville (Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express), Jim Carter (Shakespeare in Love), Michelle Dockery (Non-Stop), Elizabeth McGovern (Ragtime), and Penelope Wilton (Summerland). They’re all wrangled via a screenplay by Julian Fellowes (Gosford Park) and direction by Simon Curtis (My Week with Marilyn).

    And get a load of the bonus features:

    • Changing Times – Cast and filmmakers discuss how the changing times of the era helped lay the groundwork for the characters’ happy endings while providing audiences with the optimism that they will continue on successfully into the modern world.
    • Society Season – DOWNTON ABBEY: THE GRAND FINALE takes audiences along as the Crawleys participate in the London season, a traditional period of prestigious events in British high society. Here, the cast and filmmakers explore the details of how these events come together throughout the film.
      • Lady Petersfield’s Ball
      • Ascot Race
      • The County Show
    • Authentic to the Core – The cast, filmmakers, and historical advisor Alastair Bruce reveal the work and details that went into bringing historical authenticity to the film.
    • A Farewell to Fans – The cast and filmmakers share heartfelt messages expressing their immense gratitude for the fans’ unwavering support and love for the franchise.
    • DOWNTON ABBEY Celebrates THE GRAND FINALE – Hugh Bonneville invites the entire cast of DOWNTON ABBEY to a high-tea celebration of their global hit franchise. The beloved stars share stories, confessions, and music as they bring their DOWNTON journey to a close with a toast to the third and final film, including a world-exclusive scene.
    • Feature Commentary with Director Simon Curtis and Actress Elizabeth McGovern
    Buy or Rent Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

  • 4K UHD, Blu-ray & DVD Release: Together (2025)

    4K UHD, Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Nov. 18, 2025
    Price: DVD $14.96, Blu-ray $33.99, 4K UHD + Blu-ray $22.96
    Studio: Neon

    The much talked-about body-horror romance Together, written and directed by Michael Shanks, and starring Dave Franco (The Disaster Artist) and Alison Brie (Get Hard) arrives on disc next week!

    Dubbed by one critic as “the most fun horror movie in years”, Together makes a night in, a night you’ll never forget. And its home entertainment release of Together comes complete with exclusive special features, including interviews with writer/director Michael Shanks, stars Brie & Franco, and more.

    Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Franco and Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country, abandoning all that is familiar in their lives except each other. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.

    Buy or Rent Together (2025)

  • Blu-ray, DVD Release: Unicorns

    Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 23, 2025
    Price: DVD $13.99, Blu-ray $22.49
    Studio: Cohen Media/Kino Lorber

    Co-directed by BAFTA-nominated Sally El Hosaini (The Swimmers) and BIFA-winning filmmaker/actor James Krishna Floyd, 2023’s Unicorns tells the story of a cross-cultural romance about a single father from Essex, England, who works as an auto mechanic and a British Indian drag queen living a double life. The film stars Ben Hardy (Bohemian Rhapsody) as Luke, who is forced to rethink his sexual identity when he unexpectedly falls in love with Aysha, played by Jason Patel in his feature film debut.

    Unicorns was featured at the Toronto International Film Festival, The BFI London Film Festival, the Palm Springs Film Festival and won Best of Fest at the BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival. With cinematography by David Raedeker (The Souvenir) and brought to life by the acclaimed producing teams behind The Kids Are All Right and Brokeback Mountain, Unicorns is an unforgettable romance.

    Buy or Rent Unicorns

     

  • 4K UHD, Blu-ray Release: Read My Lips

    4K UHD & Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 23, 2025
    Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $34.99, Blu-ray $27.99
    Studio: Criterion

    Two outcasts are drawn together by crime and passion in this 2001 tour de force from director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet).

    Carla (Emmanuelle Devos, who won a César Award for her performance) is an unappreciated, hard-of-hearing employee at a nondescript construction company. Her lonely life gets a jolt of excitement when she hires a new assistant: Paul (Vincent Cassel,  Mesrine: Public Enemy #), an ex-con who soon enlists her (and her lip-reading ability) in a risky scheme.

    Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos in Read My Lips.

    With visceral camera work and sound design, Audiard immerses viewers in the duo’s increasingly turbulent world, blending noir conventions with complex character development for a thriller of unique depth and emotion.

    Criterion’s director-approved Blu-ray special edition of the romantic crime-drama contains the following features:

    • New 4K digital restoration, supervised and approved by director Jacques Audiard and director of photography Mathieu Vadepied, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • New afterword by Audiard
    • Audio commentary with actors Vincent Cassel and Emmanuelle Devos
    • Program about the making of the film featuring interviews with Audiard, Vadepied, and coscreenwriter Tonino Benacquista
    • Interview with composer Alexandre Desplat
    • Deleted scenes featuring commentary by Audiard
    • Trailer
    • New English subtitle translation
    • An essay by film scholar Ginette Vincendeau
    Buy or Rent Read My Lips

  • Blu-ray Release: Saving Face

    Blu-ray Release Date: Aug. 26, 2025
    Price: Blu-ray $27.99
    Studio: Criterion

    A queer romantic comedy set in vibrant, multicultural New York City, Alice Wu’s irresistible 2004 feature debut Saving Face breathed fresh life into the genre by combining snappy dialogue and a swooning love story with a poignant narrative about a mother and daughter coming to terms with each other.

    Just as Wil (Michelle Krusiec), a harried young surgical resident, begins a promising romance with the flirtatious dancer Vivian (Lynn Chen, White on Rice), her life is turned upside down when her more traditional Chinese mother (Joan Chen, Lust, Caution)—unwed and unexpectedly pregnant—moves in with her, forcing both women to confront the generational and cultural barriers that have long troubled their relationship.

    Both embracing and cleverly subverting rom-com conventions, Wu delivers a bighearted ode to the Chinese American diaspora, and the liberating joy of living one’s truth.

    Criterion’s director-approved Blu-ray edition contains the following features:

    • High-definition digital master, approved by director Alice Wu, with 5.1 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
    • Audio commentary featuring Wu
    • New interviews with Wu and actor Joan Chen
    • Deleted scenes with optional commentary by Wu
    • Behind-the-scenes featurette
    • Program featuring Wu and members of the cast at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
    • Trailer
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • An essay by critic Phoebe Chen
    Buy or Rent Saving Face

  • Blu-ray, DVD Release: Black Tea

    Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Available now
    Price: DVD $13.49, Blu-ray $20.99
    Studio: Cohen Media/Kino Lorber

    From Mauritanian-born filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako, the director of Timbuktu (2014), comes the gorgeous globe-hopping romance Black Tea.

    After saying no on her wedding day, Aya (Nina Melo) runs away from the Ivory Coast for a new life in the buzzing Chocolate City of Guangzhou, China. In this district where the African diaspora meets Chinese culture, she gets hired in a tea boutique owned by Cai (Han Chang), a Chinese man. In the secrecy of the back shop, Cai decides to initiate Aya into the secrets of the tea ceremony. Through the teaching of this ancient and intimate art, they slowly fall in love.

    Special Feature: Berlin Film Festival Press Conference

    Buy or Rent Black Tea

  • 4K UHD, Blu-ray Release: Choose Me

    4K UHD, Blu-ray Release Date: March 25, 2025
    Price: 4K UHD/Blu-ray $34.99, Blu-ray $27.99
    Studio: Criterion

    Alan Rudolph’s (Welcome to L.A.) 1984 Choose Me was the comic and cutting exploration of the mysteries of human desire that established him as one of the most boldly idiosyncratic independent auteurs of the 1980s.

    An achingly romantic neon dream set at the smoky dive Eve’s Lounge, a collection of strangers—including an insecure radio sexpert (Geneviève Bujold, Earthquake), a commitment-phobic former sex worker (Lesley Ann Warren, Color of Night), and a globe-trotting mystery man (Keith Carradine, The Long Riders)—become entangled in a web of passion, jealousy, and self-discovery.

    Grooving to the rhythms of Teddy Pendergrass’s sexy slow jams, Choose Me exists on its own offbeat wavelength—knotty, surprising, and deeply tender in its vision of lost souls wounded by love yet still reaching out for human connection.

    Criterion’s director-approved edition contains the following features:

    • New 4K digital restoration, supervised by director Alan Rudolph and producer David Blocker, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
    • In the 4K UHD edition: One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and one Blu-ray with the film and special features
    • New conversation between Rudolph and actor Keith Carradine
    • New program featuring interviews with Rudolph, Blocker, production designer Steven Legler, and producer Carolyn Pfeiffer
    • Excerpts from an interview with Rudolph at the Midnight Sun Film Festival
    • Trailers
    • English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
    • An essay by critic Beatrice Loayza
    Buy or Rent Choose Me

  • Blu-ray, DVD Release: Last Summer

    Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb 18, 2025
    Price: DVD $17.49, Blu-ray $20.99
    Studio: Janus Contemporaries/Criterion Collection

    After a decade-long absence, Catherine Breillat (Bluebeard, The Sleeping Beauty) triumphantly returns with an exploration of the themes that have made her one of cinema’s most rousing and controversial directors: the ecstasies and wounds of sexuality, and its power to unsettle.

    Samuel Kircher, left, and Léa Drucker in Last Summer

    A remarkably inscrutable Léa Drucker (Two of Us) plays Anne—an attorney advocating for abused minors—who enjoys an enviable lifestyle with her husband, Pierre (Olivier Rabourdin), a milquetoast businessman and ineffectual father to Théo (newcomer Samuel Kircher), his troubled teenage son from a previous marriage. Compelled by her stepson’s Apollonian beauty, Anne embarks on an affair that threatens the stability of her household, along with her professional integrity, as she faces a choice between accountability and deception.

    Original music by Kim Gordon and radiantly expressionist cinematography by Jeanne Lapoirie heighten the erotic and ethical tensions of Last Summer, Breillat’s latest foray into the outer limits of desire.

    Bonus features on this edition include the following:

    • Meet the Filmmakers,a new interview with director Catherine Breillat
    • Trailer
    Buy or Rent Last Summer

  • Blu-ray, DVD Release: The Beast (2023)

    Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Dec. 10, 2024
    Price: DVD $17.49, Blu-ray $20.99
    Studio: Jnaus Contemporaries/Criterion

    By the year 2044, artificial intelligence reigns, and human emotions are a liability that must be surgically removed to produce a more pliant workforce. But this procedure triggers Gabrielle (Léa Seydoux, No Time to Die) to experience haunting memories of her past lives, as she encounters different incarnations of her paramour, Louis (George MacKay, Captain Fantastic), first in belle epoque Paris and then in 2014 Los Angeles. As she once more undergoes the pains and pleasures of romance—and rediscovers what it means to be truly alive—Gabrielle awaits the erasure of her humanity with growing fascination and dread.

    In his most ambitious film yet, visionary French filmmaker Bertrand Bonello (Saint Laurent) freely adapts Henry James’s novella The Beast in the Jungle into a visually stunning science-fiction labyrinth that is as metaphysically mysterious as it is emotionally powerful. Powered by Seydoux’s heartrending performance, The Beast poignantly imagines the consequences of humankind becoming too afraid to risk the inherent vulnerability of love.

    Bonus features include the following:

    • Meet the Filmmakers, a new interview with director Bertrand Bonello
    • Trailer
    Buy or Rent The Beast (2023)