How many are there? I mean no romance subplot at all not even a little bit, I've only thought of 2 so far, anyone else got any?

Withnail & I
The Great Escape

Ghost in the shell doesn't have one.

Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World

Basically only films starring people of only one gender.

Erm... Free Willy?

Edit: Battleship Potemkin.

Rambo. Predator. Pretty much any Arnie film.

psh...Beastiality all the way. He LOVES that whale! And I mean...really :wub: that whale :sneaky: j/k

Ummm...<looks at movie shelf> 12 Angry Men doesn't. I don't think To Kill A Mocking Bird does either, but I might be wrong

Well, but usually there's some dumb blonde somewhere in the background...

always a female, at least. in predator its a south american woman..

A Clockwork Orange (Richard - how come you didn't think of that - with your avi and sig...)

Full Metal Jacket

Space Odysseys 2001 & 2010

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

And there are probably tons more (I'll get back to you with them later).

I'm pretty sure there wasn't any romance plot in Bakshi's Lord of the Rings either. And we can probably rule out Scooby-Doo as well, although I didn't actually see that one.

Scooby Doo has some romance between Freddy and Daffney... :whistle:

How about these:
The Old Yellow (as far as I remember it - it's no love story);
The Wizard of Oz
The Voyage to the Moon
Sargeant Bilko
The Abbys
Alien (as far as I remember it hasn't one)
I think all the Nightmare on Elm Street are without a sub-love-story...

From Dusk Till Dawn.

In Alien theres some lust stuff going on.
And in one of the aliens the docter guy loves the aliens in a really creepy way :sick:

Violent Sh** doesnt have one... neither does Premutos

hmm famous movies...

Bowling For Columbine?
Terminator 2 doesnt have a dumb blonde ckick in the background... first part has a love story though.
Training Day
Hard Boiled

well there are a couple but yes compared to how many there are thet DO have one its kinda sad

I wouldn't really call that a film (it's a documentary more/less).

Cats and Dogs
Spy Kids (I think all three episodes are love-free)
Blazzing Saddles
The Treasure of Sierra Madre
Intruder in the Dust
Hitler's SS
Der Untergang
Das Boot
Star Trek I, V, VI... (I guess some other's too)

Most Bud Spencer and Terence Hill movies

What about animated movies?

Don't worry - I'll dig out more soon.

What about between the two parents? That's a love story.

Sorry. I haven't really seen any of the episodes (I just rember some parts of it the kids at our school watched while I was watching them - sort of a daycare...)

Here's more movies with no love story:
Winchester 74
Little Ceasar
Duck Soup (there's mentioning of love, but it's actually a scam to gain money)
Air Raid Wardens

Das Boot has homosexual undertones.

Pi
Jeepers Creepers
War of the Worlds
Silence of the Lambs
The Ring
The Shawshank Redemption
Unforgiven

well...
few animated..
dumbo
uhh
wow, is that the only disney film?
the Snow Queen (I + II)
any more like these?

Gone with the Wind (:))

Triumph des willens

Savring Private Ryan (?)

Well there was a kind of psychological thing going on between Hannibal and Clarice which was a sort of perverted romance. And Hannibal does love Clarice, but I think it is more lust than romance. In any case I don't fully agree.

Yes, I was in doubt with that one too. But since nothing happens and it's nearly impossible, I didn't delete it.

I actually deleted "Signs" at the end too. Nearly forgot that the reason Gibson gave up of his holy ways in the first place was because his wife died, and there's the whole scene of the crash in the middle that can be considered as a romantic one.

What about that neighbour in Pi? Isn't she sweet on the hero?
Lector is so hooked on the detective... Maybe: The Red Dragon

Sexual predator - no love, just a female cop that saduces a guy so she could kill him...
The Dream Catcher
Dr Strangelove (except that secretary of the general at the begining)
The Passion of Christ
The Quest for the Holy Grail
Time Bandits
The Hill
BMX Bandits
E.T.
Karate Tiger
To be on Top
Platoon

Oddly enough.

Just wait for the sequel...
The Passion of Christ-ina

mmm... the Japanese version does have some tension between the mother and father of the little boy. They're divsorsed or something...

Bad Taste by Peter Jackson doesn't have a love subplot. It doesn't really have a plot at all :P

How, where? Unless you want to see something like this, it doesn't exist. :blink:

Blasphemy!
However I do hope they'll cut down on the whips and such.

brain dead rules. bad taste also has no love plot. or the frightners. or flatliners, (has more of a rejection plot) ditto day of the dead, altho .. does the breakdown of a relationship count as a love plot? if it does then day of the dead has a love plot becuse all that happens to the relationship in that movie is it disintigrates. then the man gets bitten by a zombie and lets all of the other freindly zombies into the underground base so they can romp around spreading there zombie love to all the happy soldiers. ahh. so cute.

isnt the passion of christina the porn version? with extra whips?

Does it really exist? I found the title amusing, but I guess it was just a matter of time (oh and the :whip: could fit in nicely)...

When you think about it - probably all porn movies are without a love story (lot of the old inout, in-out, but no love).

Here's more:
One Flew over Coocoo's nest
Shining
Silent Movie
Few Good Men
Men of Honor
Rat Race
Mr Bean
Lightning Jack
The man who knew too little

What about the movies with the main love story (they have no love sub-plot either).

What about that neighbour in Pi? Isn't she sweet on the hero?
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That's nitpicking. She says "hi" twice, and shows up in his house once when he has the attack and wrecks the place apart. There seems to exist an attraction from her side, but he doesn't even look twice at her, and there's absolutely no exploration of it in the whole movie.

Yes, but in the english* one, the father doesn't even exist.



* Edit: I can't type english anymore :whistle:

I guess you're right - I saw the movie only once and that was some years ago *goes to find the movie in his collection and puts it on the "to watch in the near future" shelf*

Well I must admit that when I read that you wrote Pi I remembered the neighbour aswell, so there is a hint at romance... sort of.

What about the castle that one of the knights is lured into, full of women offering him oral sex (before he is heroically saved from certain temptation by another knight :D)?

I admit that it isn't really romance, but what about that scene with Sir Galahad and all those girls?;)
And I suppose you might say that ET and that little girl have a fairly close relationship as well...

Anyway: L'Ours (no female bears as far as I know), Kind Hearts and Coronets(?), erm... it really is difficult, if no sort of romance is allowed. Hmm, Robinson Crusoe? He wouldn't have had anybody to be romantic with, right? :D

i dont remember him singing an ode to his right hand during that movie.

Didn't Robinson have some goats??? :eeeeeh:

You people are starting to freak me out.

Usual Suspects
Leon (just kidding)
The Crow - sort of, the love bit's already happened
Falling Down?
Lolita - just kidding again...

Hmm... ok then... urmm....

The Matrix : Reloaded...

No plot, so no romantic sub-plots.

Was there a romantic subplot in Videodrome? I can't remember; I was far too disgusted to pay much attention...

heh. that actually made me laugth out loud, well more a kind of dirty sniggering noise..

videodrome rules, i havnt seen it for years tho, i think it was the image of her that coaxed him into suicide? i need to see that one again.

well, Im finding plenty of movies to try.. no smoochy stuff to much up the plot (if any...)

heh. that actually made me laugth out loud, well more a kind of dirty sniggering noise..

videodrome rules, i havnt seen it for years tho, i think it was the image of her that coaxed him into suicide? i need to see that one again. [/b][/quote]
Seeing her whip the TV, you mean? I can't remember. It was a great film, actually, just a bit too disgusting for me. But I think it wasn't the actual images which provoked people to do odd stuff, but some sort of inaudible signal or something. I may well be wrong about that, though...

Anyway: Gremlins?

ah, i've got one: Madagascar!
ofcoarse that one had some homosexual undertones... I think.

who told you that?
the penguins..
the penguins.. are.. phsychotic...

I don't know, some scenes were a bit... odd.
Maybe it's just me, ever since I made an assignment on the Lion King I keep seeing homosexual undercurrents in every disney/pixar/... movie.

Stalag 17 is pretty unromantic...unless you count the Animal having a crush on betty grable and having her pictures posted up around his bunk in the prison camp.

The longest yard... eew that film sucks!!!
And no romance, at least not during the parts when I was wake.

Yah, there are actually a lot of them when you think about it.

Two I just watched last night and today (Rentals) didn't have em. AvP and Submerged (a Steven Segal film)

Oh....thats hard......
Did the Green Mile have any?

Lemme look at the DVD's I have sittin here on my shelf.

LOTR (All 3) : Yes
Meet the Parents: Yes
Tomb Raider: Yes (sorta)
Spider-Man (1 and 2): Yes
Hard to Kill: Yes
Truth about Cats and Dogs: Yes
Bourne (Supremecy and Identity): Yes
Rush Hour 2: No (Unless you count when Jackie Chan kisses that woman once)
Return to Me: Yes
Majoy Payne: Yes (wow, even this one)
Out Cold: Yes
Rundown: No (not really, sorta though)
X-Men (1 and 2): Yes
Pirates of the Caribean: Yes

Gee.

There shouldn't be any romance subplot in film versions of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, but I haven't seen any, so I wouldn't know...
Did any of the Wallace and Gromit films have a romance subplot? I don't think so.

LOTR does have a romantic scent, namely between Sam and his Hobbit-chick. But that's only at the beginning and at the and. LOTR 2 doesn't have any romantic scenes :)

Escape from Alcatraz doesn't have any romance either (well it has some horny men in it, but there's nothing romantic to that)

The Arwen / Aragorn subplot is there throughout the series..even when there are no scenes..but uh..actually there are scenes.

He said the movie not the books...in the books those things werent there obviously. :P

Hey, I have thought of another one -

A Fistful Of Dollars!

No real romance in that.

Well Tom Hanks was married and his wife did support him... also there's the old lady he's telling the story to, but no real romance (great movie though).

Some others:
American Generation X
The Big House
Turner and Hutch
Death Poets Society (OK he goes to visit a female friend, but there's no real romance there)
Yogi Bear and the Flight of the Sproose Goose
Murder Ahoy (the old Miss Marple movies series - other 3 had a love sub plot)
Moby Dick

...to be continued

You mean American History X, presumably - doesn't the younger brother have a bit of acrush on someone at school, or am I imagining that?

LotR has a massive homosexual aspect right the way through - how intentional it was is another question...

Oh that's right (the girl who played in Full House...), well it's only hinted really... The first thing that comes to mind with that movie is the sidewalk scene :crazy:

About LotR - well in the book there was a lot of that, but it was presented as comradeship - brotherhood - brothers in arms - devotion among fellow questers... how anyone got the homosexual aspect of it is beyond me :sneaky:

Dead Poets Society does have a romance subplot, though. What about that boy who's in love with that girl at the other school?

As I said - he visits her, but there's no real romance there (maybe just some youthfull lust :whistle: ). Thre are also girls present in the cave, but those aren't romantic either (but OK - if I nitpicked at Pi I guess it's only fair you remind me of such things).

Well, as far as I can remember he gives her flowers, kisses her and gets into a fight with her boyfriend. And he keeps on whining to his friends about how deeply he is in love with her. What else would he have to do for it to count as a romance subplot, then?:huh:

The romance should develope. So far it's only his yearning - the unfulfilled love. It adds weight to the side of the scale those boys are rebeling against.

Well, yes, but unfulfilled one-sided yearning still counts as a romance plot, though, doesn't it? Otherwise it wouldn't be that hard to come up with films.

Guess you're right. *would go to cross the Death Poets Society out, but doen's feel like changing posts that have been talked about*

still havnt figured out if a breakdown of a relationship counts as a *love* plot or not. if it doesnt then along with day of the dead i would have to put forwards driller killer as all that happens to renos *relationship* is that he gets more messed up and less into his girl untill she is driven to lespeanism out from boredom. (you go girl!:D) then she leaves him. then he kills her (probably the first real passion he shows her in the whole movie)

transformers the movie has no love plot :D
then again like the smurfs they only have one resident female. so probably only happens when they all get good and drunk and the cameras stop rolling.

It's funny, though, isn't it? Apparently even action and sci-fi films usually have a bit of romance, even if you'd hardly notice it. I thought about suggesting Robo-Cop, but actually that female police officer does seem to have a bit of a crush on Robo-Cop, so I suppose it wouldn't count... What about Star Wars, though? At least the first film didn't have any romance plot, did it?

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

it had the whole rescue the princess thang going down in it, but the love aspect dint start coming into it untill the next movie i think... i dont actually know. being a lucasfilm its entirtely possible that they looked at each other.. that tends to represent love in his movies, like at the end of episode 1 when padme looks at obi wan and the tiny blonde scrotum and bites her lip while looking at the tiny blonde scrotum sygnifying that she is going to fall in love with him to a point of no return. ie: spend a lot of time looking at him.
in lucas world the best contreception is extremely dark sunglasses.

there wernt no love plot in robocop my shizznit. fo rizzlit.

as for fear and lothing theres the really young girl that they dose up on acid and the attorney presumably does the naughty to off camera.
to some sick people thats love man.

Sorry to disagree but The passion of the Christ is about the greatest romance story that has ever been written.

In the beginning there was a perfect couple. One part of the couple ran away. Though every second away from her was like an eternity the Lover made a plan to win the beloved back to himself.

That is the short version! The full version is called the Divine Romance :angel: (I think).

Yes, there was. She just never bothered to tell him while he was still properly human, so she could only nurse him back to health with all that baby food :sick: and sacrifice herself for him.

did she sacrifice herself for him? god like videodrome thats one i havent seen for a while. i thought she is in robocop 2 though? i rember the nursing back to health thing and lois did look at murphy (robocop) a lot
maybe lucas ghosted on the writing for that one.

LOL Maybe that's why they gave Robo-Cop those eyeshades...
Anyway, I think she dies trying to save him, but I can't remember what from. I wasn't allowed to see the second film, though, because my cousin who had rented it claimed it contained "bad language".<_<

your cousin is clearly a spoilsport though. the second one has less bad language than the first. and is not verhoven so its got less of a serios vibe.
although there is an edited version of the first one knocking around where they bald guy shoots robo in the chest with a shotgun while calling him a muthercluker about 15 times
(and its a bad edit, the person saying the *clucker* half of the word has an english accent)

can you imagine baby robocop? thank god he was unable to optically impregenate her.
and i think i remeber now, she takes loads of bullets but she survives! (cuz she is in the sequal)

back to topic *sigh*
the leuge of gentlemen has no love subplot. just a gay german getting a blowjob from an englishgirl.

The Arwen / Aragorn subplot is there throughout the series..even when there are no scenes..but uh..actually there are scenes.

He said the movie not the books...in the books those things werent there obviously. :P [/b][/quote]
Oh yeah, I forgot all about that romance, I must have felt asleep during that part :) But this thread is about films anyway, not books :P

Another 'romance' in American History X is that between the main character and his neonazi girlfriend. A sort of image-based relationship that was doomed to end in a bad way, but a relationship nevertheless.

Sorry to disagree but The passion of the Christ is about the greatest romance story that has ever been written.

In the beginning there was a perfect couple. One part of the couple ran away. Though every second away from her was like an eternity the Lover made a plan to win the beloved back to himself.

That is the short version! The full version is called the Divine Romance :angel: (I think). [/b][/quote]
??? A bit too much of...

I think you probably have to look at SW as a whole not seperate movies..

There are tons of Love plots throughout Star Wars. Han/Leia, the relationships between all of the Jedi Masters and their apprentice..could easily be called love, especially the relationships between Obi/Anakin, then Anakin and Padme, and Anakin and his father, then Luke and his father and Luke and Leia...phew.

Anyways..the romance between Leia and Han sorta starts in the original..doesn't it?

Also..you can't overlook c3po's gay tendencies toward R2D2 =D

Good point. Technically it's still a bunch of separate films, though. And I don't think the first film that was made had a romance plot. Or did it?

Hmm there's a little between Han and the princess, but not a lot, no.

Oh, let me guess. A long look? :D

maybe a lip tremble as well ...

All war movies, except "Enemy at the Gates."

In "Star Wars," it looked more as if Luke and Leia would get it on later.

Well the beginning groundwork for Han and Leia is sorta laid..so I'd say yes =D

It was their lively back and forth banter...that was obviously going to spark into flames of passion..which it did later :P

Doh...I double posted. *kicks self*

You mean like Pearl Harbor???

Sorry to say this, but most war movies have a love story in them (unfortunately). If nothing else there's a loving girl or wife waiting for them to return...

But some of the best war movies are love sub-plot free:
-The Dirty Dozen
-Where Eagles Dare
-The Bridge on the River Kwai

What about Apocalypse Now?

i dont think theres a love plot in that one.
i just remebered, there is a love plot in braindead. damnation!

A Fistful of Dollars
For A Few Dollars More
The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly

Those are romance free, unless you count the occasional gunfight in a *****house.

How's about Ocean's Eleven?

*edits* I already got AFOD.

But the rest, yeah...

These two were already named as romance free movies - and nobody objected (so how did Clint end up in Bridges of Madison county...)

Great film. But eventually it IS all about him trying to get back his ex-wife...

Oh. Bugger. What about the modern remake?

Just remembered:

12 angry men
Inherits the Wind
Amnistad
Patriot (with Mel Gibson)

good I think except for the last one..

in the Patriot- Mel ends up courting and marrying his wifes sister

and his son ends up engaged to a merchants daughter, before Tavington and the troops lock them in the church and burn them alive.

And also, there is a whole bit about him and his love for his family..and then they're killed.

So I don't think that movie fits at all :P

Great film. But eventually it IS all about him trying to get back his ex-wife... [/b][/quote]
Yup.... :ok: , and the old one was better then the remake.

Yeah, sorry. I completely forgot the son... and wife's sister... I just remembered his wife was death and the memories he had of the masacre at that french fort... Didn't really like the movie that much.

Here's another one without a love plot: U-571

From Kurosawa's films: Yojimbo, Sanjuro, Ikiru, The Seven Samurai, Madadayo, The Throne of Blood, Derzu Uzala, Kagemusha.

I just remembered a movie gem! Does anybody know Tora-tora-tora (sp?). It's a Japaneese film about the attack on Pearl Harbor (I've seen it only once and that was several years ago).

No, it's an US-film ;)

And "Apokalypse Now" HAS a small romantic sub-plot in the "Redux"-cut, when Martin Sheen has a little "romantic entanglement" with a plantation owner's widow...

But how could someone FORGET about the romance in "Braindead" is beyond me... after all, it's what the movie is about in the end.

OTOH I would have written 'redux' if I had wanted that done.

havnt seen braindead for years, always prefered bad taste. just got the frightners so gonna check that out.

Just found it HERE. It's USA / Japan. Anyway - it was a good movie.

More movies without a love sub-plot:
Cry Terror
Bad Day at Bad Rock
Duel
Space Jam (crappy movie but still)

Battle Royale

Blue Max (awesome movie)
The Philadelphia Experiment
Soylent Green

Damn - I just realised how many classics I completely forgot to mention (see my last two posts - 3 excelent classical movies I've completely forgoten about).