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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.

Like Water for Chocolate

2021. Like Water for Chocolate

Drama Romance
7.1

19921h 45min

Mexico

Director: Alfonso Arau

Tita is passionately in love with Pedro, but her controlling mother forbids her from marrying him. When Pedro marries her sister, Tita throws herself into her cooking and discovers she can transfer her emotions through the food she prepares, infecting all who eat it with her intense heartbreak.


Indochine

2022. Indochine

Drama Romance
7.0

19922h 39min

France, Vietnam

Director: Régis Wargnier

In colonial Vietnam, dashing French naval captain Jean-Baptiste, wealthy plantation owner Éliane Devries, and her adopted Vietnamese daughter Camillevare the three points of a cross-cultural romantic triangle. As the struggle against European imperialism sweeps Indochina, Jean-Baptiste and Camille have to choose sides and Éliane faces the emotionally difficult challenge of raising the child of her daughter and ex-lover.


The Cutting Edge

2023. The Cutting Edge

Romance Comedy Drama
6.9

19921h 41min

United States

Director: Paul Michael Glaser

Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...


Howards End

2024. Howards End

Drama Romance
7.4

19922h 22min

United Kingdom, Japan

Director: James Ivory

Margaret Schlegel and her sister Helen find their lives quickly tangled in a web of intrigue involving feelings, relationships, and money when they grow close to the wealthy Wilcox family.


Memoirs of an Invisible Man

2025. Memoirs of an Invisible Man

Science Fiction Comedy Romance Thriller
6.0

19921h 39min

United States, France

Director: John Carpenter

After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.


La Vie de Bohème

2026. La Vie de Bohème

Comedy Drama Romance
7.6

19921h 43min

France, Finland

Director: Aki Kaurismäki

Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.


Medicine Man

2027. Medicine Man

Adventure Drama Romance
6.0

19921h 46min

United States

Director: John McTiernan

An eccentric scientist in the Amazon jungle rejects his research assistant for being a woman, but as bulldozers threaten their work on a potential cancer cure, they learn to collaborate and begin to fall in love.


Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

2028. Maledetto il giorno che t'ho incontrato

Comedy Romance
6.8

19921h 50min

Italy

Director: Carlo Verdone

Bernardo is dumped by his girlfriend, his career as a rock music critic is beginning to decline and stars to see a psychologist but in the meantime he meets the problematic and shy Camilla, who disrupts his life.


Shining Through

2029. Shining Through

Drama Romance Thriller War
6.4

19922h 12min

United Kingdom, United States

Director: David Seltzer

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.


A Tale of Winter

2030. A Tale of Winter

Drama Romance
7.2

19921h 54min

France

Director: Éric Rohmer

Felicie and Charles have a whirlwind holiday romance. Due to a mix-up on addresses they lose contact, and five years later at Christmas-time Felicie is living with her mother in a cold Paris with a daughter as a reminder of that long-ago summer. For male companionship she oscillates between hairdresser Maxence and the intellectual Loic, but seems unable to commit to either as the memory of Charles and what might have been hangs over everything.