Le Bal - a 1983 film with no dialogue that follows a ballroom in France for 50 years. Many actors play multiple roles brilliantly. It will never leave you.
It uses the setting and dance to show Western European history from the thirties through the eighties and it will take you from giddy joy to lost sobbing to impotent outrage. Best description I've ever heard of it: "When words are superfluous."
You don't even need to love dance to be undone by this film. It is just so bloody human.
Divorcing Jack (1998) - one of my two favourite films. I consider it a hilarious romance, but it is NOT for everyone. It is the blackest of humour. Set in Ulster after the Troubles, it manages be a send-up of an action/thriller but still be an excellent action/thriller. David Thewlis, Rachel Griffiths, Jason Isaacs & Robert Lindsey are all beyond brilliant and Bronagh Gallagher steals the film. There is a lot of violence, cursing & horrible people which ends up a sweetly charming surprise.
As I said, I highly recommend this film for a funny, date-night treat. But remember my idea of funny is "In Bruges"; my idea of romantic is "Harold and Maude"
= new reply since forum marked as read