The best Sylvia Syms’s romance movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Sylvia Syms’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Sylvia Syms.
What a Girl Wants
5.8/10
An American girl, Daphne, heads to Europe in search of the father she's never met. But instead of finding a British version of her bohemian mother, she learns the love of her mom's life is an uptight politician. The only problem now is that her long-lost dad is engaged to a fiercely territorial social climber with a daughter who makes Daphne's life miserable.
Absolute Beginners
5.6/10
A musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes' novel about life in late 1950s London. Nineteen-year-old photographer Colin is hopelessly in love with model Crepe Suzette, but her relationships are strictly connected with her progress in the fashion world. So Colin gets involved with a pop promoter and tries to crack the big time. Meanwhile, racial tension is brewing in Colin's Notting Hill housing estate...
Shirley Valentine
7.2/10
Wondering what has happened to herself, now feeling stagnant and in a rut, Shirley Valentine finds herself regularly talking to the wall while preparing her husband's chips and egg. When her best friend wins a trip-for-two to Greece Shirley begins to see the world, and herself, in a different light.
Shining Through
6.4/10
Spirited New Yorker Linda Voss goes to work for international lawyer and secret Office of Strategic Services operative Ed Leland just before World War II. As they fall in love, the United States enters the fight against Hitler, and Linda volunteers to work for Ed spying undercover behind Nazi lines. Assigned to uncover information about a German bomb, Linda also has personal motives to fulfill: discovering the fate of her Jewish family members in Berlin.
The World of Suzie Wong
6.9/10
A Hong Kong sex worker tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
The Tamarind Seed
6.4/10
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian agent.
Bunny and the Bull
6.6/10
A young shut-in takes an imaginary road trip inside his apartment, based on mementos and memories of a European trek from years before.
There Goes The Bride
3.4/10
A nervous ad executive (Tom Smothers) creates havoc on his daughter's wedding day and becomes obsessed with a dream girl (Twiggy) he keeps seeing everywhere but whom he can't catch.
A Chorus of Disapproval
5.5/10
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.
Woman in a Dressing Gown
7.3/10
A married, middle-aged woman is shocked to discover that her husband, who she thought was content in their marriage, has become infatuated with a beautiful younger woman and is planning to leave his family for her.
Food of Love
4.8/10
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
East of Sudan
5.1/10
A British soldier escapes from 1880s Khartoum and goes down the Nile river with a fellow soldier, a governess and the daughter of an emir.
