ODD COUPLES: Unusual romances on screen

Married At First Sight (9pm, Ch4) follows couples who meet for the first time on their wedding day. Unusual, but nothing compared to some of these unlikely screen romances…

The Ghost And Mrs Muir (1947)

Gene Tierney is the widow who moves with her young daughter to a seaside cottage in the early 1900s. There, she forges a close bond with the house’s resident ghost, a sea captain played by Rex Harrison. (6pm, Talking Pix TV)

Starman (1984)

John Carpenter’s sci-fi romance stars

Jeff Bridges as an alien who lands on Earth, and takes on the form of the dead husband of a young widow (Karen Allen). Together, they go on the run from the US government – and find love on the road.

Max Mon Amour (1986)

Billed as ‘the greatest ape romance since King Kong’, this oddball romantic comedy stars Charlotte Rampling as a British diplomat’s wife in France, who shocks her husband when she starts having an affair with a chimpanzee!

Her (2013)

A typically left-field offering from director Spike Jonze, this romantic drama stars Joaquin Phoenix as a writer who develops an unlikely relationship with his computer’s artificially intelligent operating system, seductively voiced by Scarlett Johansson.