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Romance movies

Stories of passion, heartbreak, and intimacy that explore the beautiful and complicated nature of love.

Subgenres include: Romantic Comedy, Passionate Romance, Dark Romance.

Fools Rush In

1861. Fools Rush In

Comedy Drama Romance
6.1

19971h 49min

United States

Director: Andy Tennant

After a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.


Fierce Creatures

1862. Fierce Creatures

Comedy Romance
6.4

19971h 33min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Robert Young

Ex-policeman Rollo Lee is sent to run Marwood Zoo, the newly acquired business of a New Zealand tycoon. In order to meet high profit targets and keep the zoo open, Rollo enforces a new 'fierce creatures' policy, whereby only the most impressive and dangerous animals are allowed to remain in the zoo. However, the keepers are less enthusiastic about complying with these demands.


The Cyclone

1863. The Cyclone

Comedy Romance
6.8

19961h 29min

Italy

Director: Leonardo Pieraccioni

The everyday life of accountant Levante, his family and the other people of a small town in the Tuscan countryside is taken by storm by the serendipitous arrival of five gorgeous Spanish flamenco dancers.


One Fine Day

1864. One Fine Day

Romance Comedy
6.5

19961h 48min

United States

Director: Michael Hoffman

Melanie Parker, an architect and mother of Sammy, and Jack Taylor, a newspaper columnist and father of Maggie, are both divorced. They meet one morning when overwhelmed Jack is left unexpectedly with Maggie and forgets that Melanie was to take her to school. As a result, both children miss their school field trip and are stuck with the parents. The two adults project their negative stereotypes of ex-spouses on each other, but end up needing to rely on each other to watch the children as each must save his job. Humor is added by Sammy's propensity for lodging objects in his nose and Maggie's tendency to wander.


Jerry Maguire

1865. Jerry Maguire

Comedy Drama Romance
7.3

19962h 19min

United States

Director: Cameron Crowe

Jerry Maguire used to be a typical sports agent: willing to do just about anything he could to get the biggest possible contracts for his clients, plus a nice commission for himself. Then, one day, he suddenly has second thoughts about what he's really doing. When he voices these doubts, he ends up losing his job and all of his clients, save Rod Tidwell, an egomaniacal football player.


Everyone Says I Love You

1866. Everyone Says I Love You

Comedy Romance
6.7

19961h 41min

United States

Director: Woody Allen

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.


The Mirror Has Two Faces

1867. The Mirror Has Two Faces

Comedy Drama Romance
6.6

19962h 6min

United States

Director: Barbra Streisand

Rose Morgan, who still lives with her mother, is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin, a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect.


The English Patient

1868. The English Patient

Drama Romance War
7.4

19962h 42min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Anthony Minghella

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.


Brassed Off

1869. Brassed Off

Comedy Romance Drama Bittersweet Romance Professional Drama
7.2

19961h 47min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: Mark Herman

A Yorkshire coal mine is threatened with closure and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.

Themes

Economic precarity, Labor solidarity, Gender barriers, Closure politics, Deception in the workplace, Working-class pride

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Romeo + Juliet

1870. Romeo + Juliet

Drama Romance
6.7

19962h

Australia, United States

Director: Baz Luhrmann

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.