Best Romance movies of 2004

Actors : Feng Tien, Chun-Luk Chan, Li Gong, Chen Chang,

Three short films, one each from Directors Michelangelo Antonioni, Steven Soderbergh, and Wong Kar Wai, address the themes of love and sex.

Actors : Hidetaka Yoshioka, Takako Matsu, Yukiyoshi Ozawa, Masatoshi Nagase,
Directors : Yôji Yamada,

During the time of change of the mid-19th Century, Yaichiro is bid farewell by his fellow samurai friends Munezo and Samon as he leaves their clan's fiefdom on the northwest coast of Japan ...

Actors : Catherine Zeta-Jones, Stanley Tucci, Tom Hanks, Chi McBride,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

An eastern immigrant finds himself stranded in JFK airport, and must take up temporary residence there.

Actors : Peter MacNicol, Jamie Foxx, Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union,
Directors : Daniel Taplitz,

Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up hand-book for men, becoming a best-selling author in the process.

Actors : Laura Smet, Benoît Magimel, Bernard Le Coq, Aurore Clément,
Directors : Claude Chabrol,

A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.

Actors : Burghart Klaußner, Daniel Brühl, Stipe Erceg, Julia Jentsch,
Directors : Hans Weingartner,

Three activists cobble together a kidnapping plot after they encounter a businessman in his home.

Actors : Shirley Henderson, Sam Neill, Simon Abkarian, Joan Allen,
Directors : Sally Potter,

In this film, told almost entirely in iambic pentameter, She is a scientist in a loveless marriage to Anthony, a devious politician. He is a Lebanese doctor in self-imposed exile, working ...

Actors : Nicholas Downs, Emile Hirsch, Elisha Cuthbert, Timothy Olyphant,
Directors : Luke Greenfield,

A teenager's dreams come true when a former porn star moves in next door and they fall in love.

Actors : Tony Shalhoub, Matthew Broderick, Toni Collette, Alec Baldwin,
Directors : Jeff Nathanson,

A movie director-screenwriter finds a man to finance his latest project but soon discovers that the producer is actually an undercover FBI agent working on a mob sting operation.

Actors : Malcolm McDowell, Claire Forlani, Jim Caviezel, Jeremy Northam,
Directors : Rowdy Herrington,

Jim Caviezel stars as golf legend Bobby Jones, the icon who retired from competition at the tender age of 28.

Actors : María Botto, Guillermo Toledo, Fernando Ramallo, Marian Aguilera,

Leni takes Rafi to meet her family in Madrid. Leni's family is Jewish - mother, father, older sister and daughter, brother, and grandfather. Rafi is Palestinian, in Spain since age 12. ...

Actors : Moa Khouas, Karim Ben Haddou, Lotfi Chakri, Vahina Giocante,
Directors : Ziad Doueiri,

Two inner-city teenagers engage in an obsessive, innocent flirtation fueled by Lila's sexually explicit overtures.

Actors : Suleka Mathew, Kyle MacLachlan, Jimi Mistry, Kris Holden-Ried,
Directors : Ian Iqbal Rashid,

A gay Canadian living in London has his perfectly crafted life upset when his devoutly Muslim mother comes to visit.

Actors : Samantha Morton, Johnny Depp, John Malkovich, Paul Ritter,
Directors : Laurence Dunmore,

The story of John Wilmot, a.k.a. the Earl of Rochester, a 17th century poet who famously drank and debauched his way to an early grave, only to earn posthumous critical acclaim for his life's work.

Actors : Malik Zidi, Gilbert Melki, Gérard Depardieu, Catherine Deneuve,
Directors : André Téchiné,

Traveling from France to Tangiers, a man looks to reunite with his former love, though their romance ended some 30 years earlier.

Actors : Josh Charles, Andy Richter, Jay Mohr, Julianne Nicholson,
Directors : Wallace Wolodarsky,

Two months shy of their wedding, a couple decide to allow each other last flings until their wedding.

Actors : Viktor Sukhorukov, Oldzhas Nusupbayev, Olga Landina, Eduard Tabishev,
Directors : Gulshat Omarova,

Shiza is the nickname of a 15-year-old boy. Money, power, and women - he has none of these, yet, in his young life. But, he does have the illegal, underground circuit of bare-knuckle ...

Actors : Kostja Ullmann, Miriam Morgenstern, Jürgen Tonkel, Robert Stadlober,
Directors : Marco Kreuzpaintner,

A close friendship between two crew teammates is tested when one slowly discovers he's gay and attracted to the other.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Jeanne Balibar, Maggie Cheung, Béatrice Dalle,
Directors : Olivier Assayas,

London-based Emily Wang gained minor notoriety from her VJ-ing on cable television. She is now more renowned for being the longtime girlfriend and pseudo manager of rock musician Lee Hauser...

Actors : Banlop Lomnoi, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Huai Dessom, Sirivech Jareonchon,
Directors : Apichatpong Weerasethakul,

A romance between a soldier and a country boy, wrapped around a Thai folk-tale involving a shaman with shape-shifting abilities.