“You will not command the heart” is a well-known expression that is 100% true. Many books, songs have been written on this subject, hundreds of films have been shot.
We will talk about 10 films that deservedly can claim to be the best in their genre.
10. The bodyguard | 1992
Frank Farmer (Kevin Costner) is a former Secret Service agent who guards the US president. He worked on the security of Reagan and Carter, so after retirement he became one of the most sought after bodyguards in the private segment.
His new client is the popular singer Rachel Merron (Whitney Houston), who is haunted by a mysterious fan with the maniac's manners.
The richest people dream of a date with Rachel, so Frank understands that he, a simple "bodyguard" has no chance, but still falls in love with his employer.
9. Another Bovary | 2014
A man named Marten, already at a respectable age, returns to his homeland - to Normandy, where he suddenly falls into a maelstrom of passion, which he no longer hoped to experience in his years.
His new neighbor literally stepped off the pages of Gustave Flaubert's “Madame Bovary”, and even her name is almost the same - Gemma Boveri (played by Gemma Arterton).
This film will turn your idea about the novel, if you read it, and give an excellent story, even if you were not familiar with the original source.
8. Damage | 1992
This picture is about the tragic consequences that a relationship between a man and a woman who stays together despite the risk can lead to.
Stephen (Jeremy Irons) is a successful politician, a happy husband and father. His life changes dramatically when he meets his son’s lover Anna, whom he himself falls in love with.
The young girl reciprocates and a violent romance erupts between them, the publication of which threatens the destruction of Stephen’s career, family and life, but he is ready for anything in order to be with his beloved.
Alas, such a relationship, by definition, cannot end well ...
7. The diary of memory | 2004
The classic love story of a poor guy and a girl and a rich family of aristocrats, filed through the prism of time. Incredibly kind and bright history gives hope for a miracle, although it is obvious that in life such a development of events is hardly possible.
Rachel McAdams and Ryan Gosling perfectly played a couple in love, whose feelings are not able to stop either time, or war, or severe parental rules.
It is worth paying tribute to the novel and the original source, which became a bestseller a week after the start of sales.
6. The deep blue sea | 2011
Events unfold after the end of World War II. The main character played by Rachel Weisz is the happy wife of a successful judge who enjoys wealth and social standing.
Everything changes when she accidentally meets a former pilot (his image was embodied by Tom Hiddleston). Suddenly flashed feelings compel her to destroy her marriage and seemingly ideal life, starting to build everything anew, with another man and in a different setting.
In the Russian translation, the name was lost its meaning: the original name The Deep Blue Sea is a reference to the expression “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea”, that is, it speaks of the need to make an unpleasant, but obligatory choice between two things.
5. Atonement | 2007
Melodrama Joe Wright in 2007 became a real hit, collecting 7 nominations for an Oscar (the statuette was given only for music), 14 for BAFTA and 5 for Golden Globe.
James McAvoy and Keira Knightley play a couple in love, which is separated by the sister of the heroine. She substitutes the guy, accusing him of violence against another girl, for which he first goes to prison, and then to the front.
Since childhood, as a writer, a female sorceress only shortly before her death decides to repent and publishes a new novel, on the pages of which she reunites lovers and gives them a completely different life.
4. Lust | 2007
Another love story against the backdrop of the war, this time in Chinese color. Young and full of love for the homeland, Jiazhi pretends to be the wife of a businessman in order to rub himself in the trust in Mr. Yi, who is the embodiment of the evil of Japanese occupation.
However, over time, the girl realizes that she has fallen in love with her enemy, so it becomes difficult for her to trap him, where death awaits him at the hands of her accomplices.
To love your enemy who is not worthy of this love is a difficult test, for the passage of which requires tremendous inner strength.
3. The best offer | 2013
The brilliant Jeffrey Rush plays an elderly collector and auctioneer who is wealthy but lonely. Having a lot of money and “cockroaches in his head”, he no longer hopes to meet a life partner, as a mysterious young girl suddenly appears, who literally charmed the protagonist.
For her sake, he is ready to do things that he would never have agreed to before, he is ready to change and “break” himself, but as a result, the truth about who the mysterious lady is really will break him.
2. The Titanic | 1997
The cult picture of James Cameron was not in vain the first film ever to break the 1 billion box office mark. The tragic love story of Rose and Jack is the real classic of the genre.
A tramp is an artist and a young lady, promised to be a husband to a wealthy entrepreneur - they have no chance of a happy life, but they don’t give a damn about it while the Titanic floats.
1. Reader | 2008
Fifteen-year-old Michael Berg meets a woman 20 years older, who first helps him, and then seduces him. The first sex and emotional, as it seems to him, intimacy fill his life with new colors, until the woman suddenly disappears.
A few years later, as a law student, he meets her in court, where she passes as an accused in the death of hundreds of people in Nazi concentration camps. The feeling that was born on the basis of sex, gradually develops into something more, which has not yet been invented by the name.