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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.

The Traveler

91. The Traveler

Drama Romance
Upcoming

202617min

An extensive cinematic essay on displacement and the terror of nostalgia.


Fantasy Life

92. Fantasy Life

Comedy Romance Drama
Upcoming

20261h 31min

Director: Matthew Shear

An anxious law school dropout (Matthew Shear) stumbles into a job babysitting his psychiatrist's three granddaughters and falls for the girls' mother (Amanda Peet), an actress in a rocky marriage. A smart, New York-set romantic comedy co-starring Alessandro Nivola, Judd Hirsch, Bob Balaban, Andrea Martin, Zosia Mamet, and Holland Taylor. Winner of the SXSW Narrative Feature Audience Award.


the last i'll ever hold

93. the last i'll ever hold

Romance
Upcoming

2026

Director: Jayden Christina

A young woman thinks back on early memories with her girlfriend.


The Ogre's Bride

94. The Ogre's Bride

Romance Fantasy
Upcoming

2026

Director: Chihiro Ikeda

In a Japan where humans and demons co-exist peacefully, Yuzu is an ordinary high school girl who lives in the shadow of her older sister, who is the bride of a demon. One day, she has a life-changing encounter with a beautiful ogre who claims her as his bride.


Mythos

95. Mythos

Adventure Fantasy Romance
Upcoming

20261h 48min

Director: Boston B.

An Anthology about Greek Mythology from the point of view of a college student who's trying to save his grade. Going through stories such as Pandora's Box, Nymph, Narcissus, Orpheus and Eurydice, and finally Theseus. Each one reflecting how Mythology might not be history, but examples of who we are as people.


Non è la fine del mondo

96. Non è la fine del mondo

Romance Comedy
Upcoming

2026

Director: Valentina Zanella

Emma—with her wild hair, gentle eyes, and status as an eternal intern—finds herself forced to start over and put her life back on the line. Once an invisible freelancer, she now defies fate with a light heart in a dreamy yet chaotic Rome. Amidst misunderstandings, Harmony romance novels, and the cottage of her dreams, Emma will realize it’s time to stop reading about other people's lives and start writing her own. She also discovers that Pietro Scalzi, a brooding producer, isn't the villain of the story, but the hero she never saw coming. Because the true happy ending is only the beginning.


Dushi Curaçao

97. Dushi Curaçao

Romance Comedy
Upcoming

20261h 30min

Director: Andy van Veen

Roos travels alone to Curaçao to distance herself from her life in the Netherlands — and from her fiancé Roel, with whom she no longer feels a connection. While those around her believe they’re the perfect couple, deep down Roos knows it’s over. On the island, she meets Stijn, a defense worker, with whom she shares an intense connection. But Roos hides her background and invents a new story about who she is. As the island pulls her further away from home, the truth threatens to catch up with her.


I See You

98. I See You

Romance Comedy Drama War
Upcoming

2026

Director: Yulia Belyak

After his phone breaks, Matvii goes to search for a woman whose life he had been observing through it up until that point, not knowing how she will react if she finds out that he's a wheelchair bound war veteran.


Airy in Busan

99. Airy in Busan

Comedy Romance
Upcoming

20261h 40min

Director: Somphong Kunapratom

A female parade-band singer and the backbone of her family faces a life in ruins when she is kicked out of the band, dumped by her boyfriend, and overwhelmed by debt. She decides to travel to South Korea with her best friend to search for a new way to survive.


28:20

100. 28:20

Romance
Upcoming

20266min

Director: Regina Jimenez

Two people meet and create a connection beyond spacetime.