Cinemaude volume 6.

Meet our series with TeaTime Pictures: Cinemaude. Find maude's Co-Creative Director Dakota Johnson and TeaTime Co-Founder Ro Donnelly's favorite romantic flicks curated monthly.

Singing in the Rain, 1952

A musical romantic-comedy set in the early 1900s as hollywood shifts from silent to talking films. Actors Don and Lina have been leads together many a times but only Don has the voice for the latest role in a musical comedy. Drama builds as a new young actress is brought in to be the Don’s vocal match.

Watch: HBO Max

Bridges of Madison County, 1995

Shortly after their elderly mother passes, two adult children begin to sort through her life stumbling upon a relationship that never was from many decades ago. The film flashes backward to a National Geographic photographer visiting a small town—meeting a young married mother, whose children and husband are away. The children unearth a mother’s longing and search for her lost love, finding hope in their own lives.

Watch: on Demand

A Single Man, 2009

Set in 1960s Los Angeles, English Professor George Falconer (Firth), finds himself unable to cope with the sudden loss of his boyfriend, Jim. Falconer’s journey is a unique depiction of how fraught homosexuality was in this era.

Where to watch: Netflix

Anomalisa, 2015

Tortured and unmotivated author finds himself in the midwest on his book tour. Those in his life have blended together—even their faces in his own mind, creating a mundane existence around him. He meets a woman at the hotel he is staying at and becomes invigorated with her—spending a night with her and being unfaithful to his wife. When he returns home, he is still captivated by his interaction.

Watch: On Demand

Lovers Rock, 2020

In the 1980s in West London, a lively party brings two young individuals together. Set at a reggae house party, the night unfolds as romance and violence ensue.

Watch: on Prime Video