Showing results for "The Cinema" in Romance

For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meagre existence in New York City's Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented The Workers' Cinema: a theatre where gay men cruised for love. While classic war films played, Old Second and his fellow countrymen found intimacy in the privacy of the Workers' Cinema's screening rooms. Elsewhere, in the box office, Bao Mei sold movie tickets to closeted men - guarding their secrets and finding her own happiness with the projectionist.

‘Charming and clever … a must read’ EVIE WOODS The Midnight Library meets Ashley Poston, in an emotional, heartwarming debut romantic novel, where an engaged couple stumble upon a magical movie theatre that plays formative memories from their lives, showing secrets they both have been...

‘A witty, warm-hearted romp through the lives and loves of three friends’ Debbie...

Professor Harak H'gin leads a peaceful life studying linguistics on his native planet of Plumeria. Until the day he stumbles across a bedraggled, beautiful human female. Dared by a colleague to transform the pitiful creature into a true member of their society, Harak takes on the challenge. Forced to eke out a meager living selling flowers, Liza is desperate to improve her situation. When a chance meeting offers the opportunity to become something more than a menial worker, she doesn't hesitate—even though it means moving in with the arrogant, handsome alien.

Crown Prince Oliver Hawthorne has spent his entire life performing a role he never wanted. When he flees to London to escape an arranged marriage and pursue his dream of acting, the last thing he expects is to fall in love with a ghost. Lillian Channing has haunted The Jade Dragon Cinema since 1926, translucent and alone, forgotten by a world that moved on without her. For seventy years, she’s existed in the shadows—until Oliver walks into her theater and looks at her like she’s the most real thing he’s ever seen. What begins as acting lessons becomes something neither can deny.

An engaged couple discovers a magical movie theater that challenges what they know about themselves—and each other—in this nostalgic and “utterly engrossing” (Margarita Montimore, USA TODAY bestselling author) debutthat is perfect for fans of The Midnight Library and In Five Years. At...

Adjusting to life on noisy, crowded Samar Prime is difficult for former professor Anna Lennox, particularly when she's forced to spend too much time away from her young daughter. A teaching job on a peaceful tropical planet seems like an ideal alternative. But Thaima is not quite the paradise it appears to be, and her new employer, King Mongat, is the most arrogant, dangerous, infuriating male she's ever met.

Film location manager Claire Montgomery never imagined that Starlight Creek's timeless beauty would capture both her professional ambition and her heart. Battling in an industry still dominated by men, she faces her toughest challenge yet: securing access to a historically significant art deco theatre. It's fiercely protected by its reclusive owner Hattie Fitzpatrick and her enigmatic great-nephew Luke Jackson.

Ein alter Kinosaal, eine junge Frau auf der Flucht vor ihrem Leben und etwas, das viel furchteinflößender ist als alles, was sie sich je vorgestellt hat. Ronja hatte nicht weglaufen wollen, nur ein Zeichen setzen. Einzig deshalb hat sie die erstickende Enge ihres Elternhauses verlassen. Eine verpasste Bahn und der Regen zwingen sie schließlich dazu, Zuflucht in einem stillgelegten Kino zu suchen. Zu spät bemerkt sie, dass sie nicht allein ist. Und plötzlich kämpft sie nicht nur um ihr Recht auf ein selbstbestimmtes Leben, sondern um das Leben selbst.

Une romance déjantée et sexy dans l’esprit du best-seller Le prince charmant existe ! (Il est italien et tueur à gages). La pétillante Cerise tient un café librairie à Sunshine, petite station balnéaire ensoleillée où il fait bon vivre. Cette passionnée de littérature profite de son temps libre pour chroniquer des romances et sortir avec ses amis aussi délurés qu’elle. Or sa routine vole en éclats le jour où elle tombe sur une paire de fesses nues dans sa chambre. Ce postérieur inattendu appartient à Esteban Vargas, le frère jumeau de sa colocataire et meilleure amie.

La signora delle camelie di Alexandre Dumas racconta l'appassionata vicenda di Margherita Gautier, bellissima, elegante e sofisticata cortigiana, e Armando Duval, giovane rampollo di una stimata famiglia nella Parigi di metà ‘800. L'amore, inarrestabile, travolge i protagonisti conducendoli, dall'effimera vita cittadina, a Bougival, un romantico paesello della campagna francese in cui vivere un ideale sogno d'amore. Ma la felicità non è concessa alle cortigiane e il destino avverso si abbatte sulla coppia d'innamorati.

First Princess Serena, who is from an Albanian royal family, is an Anaheim Angels baseball fan. She falls in love with a nerdy pitcher John Mackey who plays for the baseball team.

È passato parecchio tempo dal divorzio e non le sembra poi così strano provare una fortissima attrazione per uno studente. Non quando sa che in ogni caso non potrà mai portare a niente. Del resto non potrà succedere granché, limitandosi a vederlo quando è in compagnia di altri studenti e rimanendo nella posizione distaccata che le dà il suo ruolo di docente universitaria. Ma una sera, quando lo incontra al cinema dove lui fa la maschera, i confini tra di loro iniziano a dissolversi, fino a diventare praticamente impercettibili...