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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.

Multiplicity

1881. Multiplicity

Comedy Fantasy Science Fiction Romance
6.1

19961h 57min

United States

Director: Harold Ramis

Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.


Breaking the Waves

1882. Breaking the Waves

Drama Romance
7.8

19962h 39min

Denmark, France

Director: Lars von Trier

In a small, conservative Scottish village, an oilman is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when he urges her to have sex with another.


Phenomenon

1883. Phenomenon

Drama Romance Science Fiction Fantasy
6.4

19962h 3min

United States

Director: Jon Turteltaub

An ordinary man sees a bright light descend from the sky, and discovers he now has super-intelligence and telekinesis.


Beautiful Thing

1884. Beautiful Thing

Comedy Drama Romance
7.6

19961h 32min

United Kingdom

Director: Hettie Macdonald

During a long, hot summer on the Thamesmead Estate in Southeast London, three teenagers edge towards adulthood.


Lone Star

1885. Lone Star

Drama Mystery Romance
7.4

19962h 15min

United States

Director: John Sayles

When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.


A Summer's Tale

1886. A Summer's Tale

Romance Drama Comedy
7.6

19961h 54min

France

Director: Éric Rohmer

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.


Ridicule

1887. Ridicule

Comedy Drama Romance
7.3

19961h 42min

France

Director: Patrice Leconte

To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.


The Truth About Cats & Dogs

1888. The Truth About Cats & Dogs

Comedy Romance
6.3

19961h 33min

United States

Director: Michael Lehmann

A successful veterinarian and radio show host with low self-esteem asks her model friend to impersonate her when a handsome man wants to see her.


Mrs. Winterbourne

1889. Mrs. Winterbourne

Romance Drama
6.2

19961h 45min

United States

Director: Richard Benjamin

Connie Doyle is eighteen, pregnant and alone. She accidentally ends up on a train where she meets Hugh Winterbourne and his wife pregnant Patricia. The train wrecks and she wakes up in the hospital to find out that it's been assumed that she's Patricia. Hugh's mother takes her in and she falls in love with Hugh's brother Bill. Just when she thinks everything is going her way, her ex-boyfriend shows up.


Stealing Beauty

1890. Stealing Beauty

Drama Romance
6.5

19961h 56min

Italy, United Kingdom

Director: Bernardo Bertolucci

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted.