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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.

If You had Stayed

41. If You had Stayed

Romance Drama
Upcoming

20261h 25min

Director: Aidan MacKay

After a tragic choice leads him to the brink, a disillusioned artist named Michael awakens on a mysterious beach. a liminal space where lost souls come to confront their pasts. Guided by Bob, a charismatic yet enigmatic caretaker, Michael embarks on a surreal journey through the pivotal moments of his life: love, heartbreak, and devastating loss. As he confronts hidden truths and unspoken regrets, Michael is faced with one profound question: Was it worth it, and what would life be like if he had stayed?


Girls Like Girls

42. Girls Like Girls

Romance Drama
Upcoming

2026

Director: Hayley Kiyoko

Coley, 17, from rural Oregon, navigates intimacy after her mother's passing. Meeting Sonya sparks new feelings, but self-doubt hinders their connection. Sonya, unfamiliar with dating girls, is uncertain. They learn to embrace emotions.


Iván & Hadoum

43. Iván & Hadoum

Drama Romance
Upcoming

20261h 40min

Director: Ian de la Rosa

Iván (33), a trans man, and Hadoum (30), a Spanish-Moroccan woman, fall in love at the industrial greenhouse they work in. While facing the opposition from their families and co-workers, Iván realizes he doesn’t need to be the man he is expected to be.


Love & Other Crimes

44. Love & Other Crimes

Crime Drama Romance
Upcoming

202621min

Director: Clarito Zapanta

Noah Thomas's life takes a dangerous turn when a chance reunion with an old high school friend entangles him in a ruthless crime ring. As he falls deeper into the syndicate's violent world, his budding romance with Shaye Matthews offers a fragile glimmer of hope. Torn between love and survival, Noah must navigate betrayals, escalating stakes, and deadly choices that threaten to destroy everything he values.


PAPERWINGS

45. PAPERWINGS

Drama Romance
Upcoming

20266min

Director: Jason Chaet

In a cramped apartment that feels like it’s collapsing in on itself, two young men try to outrun addiction and each other. Jay is fighting for sobriety. Alex is fighting not to feel. When pills resurface between them, what starts as a familiar argument spirals into a breaking point that tests the limits of love, loyalty, and survival. Paperwings is an intimate, claustrophobic portrait of codependency, recovery, and the fragile hope of choosing to live.


Carolina Caroline

46. Carolina Caroline

Crime Romance Thriller Drama
Upcoming

20261h 45min

Director: Adam Rehmeier

A young woman skips her small town — in search of her estranged mother — alongside a charismatic con man on the run from the law. The duo leave a wave of crime and passion behind them as they hustle their way through the Southeast.


All That We Never Were

47. All That We Never Were

Drama Romance
Upcoming

2026

Director: Jorge Alonso

19-year-old Leah navigates a coming-of-age journey in the wake of a tragic car accident that claims her parents. Relocated to a coastal town under the care of her brother’s best friend Axel, Leah grapples with grief, haunting nightmares and a fractured sense of self.


Asad

48. Asad

History Action Drama Romance
Upcoming

2026

Director: Mohamed Diab

A slave in 19th Century Egypt revolts against his masters for equal rights for slaves to live freely.


Love( ) Mave

49. Love( ) Mave

Drama Romance
Upcoming

202621min

Director: Rohit Jasud

The journey of Mavis, a 23 year old writer based in New York, who's longing for love has had a turbulence lately; despite living the "happily ever after" with her long term boyfriend - Rehan. Being the gifted writer that she is, ironically she can't seem to find the words to express the sudden shift of feelings towards her partner. Tackling themes such as guilt, love, and falling out of it; Love ( ) Mave explores what it's like to be in love with someone with all your being, but just not the way as you had before and all the strings of intimacy in between.


Onethong

50. Onethong

Drama Romance Fantasy Comedy
Upcoming

2026

Director: Piyakarn Butprasert

A modern-day woman finds herself transported into the body of Onethong, a character in the literary world of Khun Chang Khun Phaen. She must survive and find a way to escape the tragic fate of the character, who is destined to face execution.