You should definitely watch the Before Trilogy by Richard Linklater then. Incredibly well written romance that follows a couple and their evolving relationship from their meeting in 1995 (Before Sunrise) to 9 years later (Before Sunset) and concluding in 2013 with Before Midnight. All entries were genuinely filmed 9 years apart as following the story and you can see how the characters and actors evolved over that period. Both heartwarming and heartbreaking! Answer from GlowingDonkeys on reddit.com
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IMDb
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Top 50 Romance Movies
The two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both trying to forget their troubled love lives, until love finds them anyways. ... Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Working as an elf in a year-round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn--that seems too good to be true. ... A directionless man is swept off his feet when an enigmatic, impossibly handsome biker takes him on as his submissive. ... Tells the story of Lorenz Hart's struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of "Oklahoma!".
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Reddit
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r/MovieSuggestions on Reddit: Actually well written romance movies????
March 19, 2024 -

Listen. I love good romances like Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Two Weeks Notice, and Bridget Jones Diary (minus all the fat phobia comments. That girl was skinny, damn it).

I love romances. But, I rarely EVER watch them! So many are either beautifully written but end tragically, or are cheesy with no chemistry. A lot of them also don’t have much of a plot.

So please please please give me recommendations! I don’t care if the romance is secondary, I want all recommendations gay or straight, don’t leave out any foreign films, and they HAVE to have good chemistry! For the love of god!

Doesn’t matter if it’s wholesome and romantic or sexy - I need something well written and well thought out. Almost all of the ones I actually like are Jane Austen inspired. That wonderful woman cannot have been the ONLY great romance writer!

(Side note, you can’t just show us two attractive people standing in the same room and let that be their chemistry. I’ve watched so many action movies, horror movies, scifis, fantasies, and most of the romance couples have zero chemistry. Anyways.)

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Variety
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The 50 Most Romantic Movies Of All Time: Critics' Picks
February 13, 2024 - These are the 50 top romance movies of all time, chosen by Variety critics. Browse the most romantic films, from Brokeback Mountain to A Star Is Born.
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Netflix
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Best Romantic Movies | Netflix Official Site
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry ... Mr. & Mrs. Smith ... Metro... In Dino ... Mr. & Mrs. Smith ... Moulin Rouge! ... Life in a ... Metro ... Moulin Rouge! ... To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You ... Netflix has an extensive library of feature films, documentaries, TV shows, anime, award-winning Netflix originals, and more. Watch as much as you want, anytime you want.Join Now · Read about Netflix TV shows and movies and watch bonus videos on Tudum.com.
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Reddit
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r/IMDbFilmGeneral on Reddit: The 30 Best Romantic Movies Of All Time
February 1, 2024 - Instead of Bogart and Bacall or Hepburn and Tracy, it’s George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez conjuring up a lab’s worth of on-screen chemistry – and taking one of the steamiest fantasy baths in cinema along the way – as a bank robber and FBI agent who fall in love at great risk to her career and his freedom. You hope, pray, that somehow they’ll both get away with their clandestine affair without it robbing this perfect movie of its storytelling nouse.
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IMDb
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Romantic Movies with Happy Endings
List your movie, TV & celebrity picks. ... A Marine travels to Louisiana after serving three tours in Iraq and searches for the unknown woman he believes was his good luck charm during the war.DirectorScott HicksStarsZac EfronTaylor SchillingBlythe Danner ... A Hollywood-set romantic tale of a guy who is content to live his life without a job yet with the love of his life, a young actress.DirectorJames KeachStarsRachel BilsonTom SturridgeRichard Jenkins
Rating: 7.7/10 ​ - ​ 9.01K votes
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Quora
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What are some good Hollywood love story movies? - Quora
Answer (1 of 10): Some of the Hollywood love stories which I loved are, 1. P.S. I love you. 2. Letters to Juliet. 3. A walk in the clouds. 4. The notebook. 5. You’ve got a mail. 6. Sleepless in Seattle. 7. Pretty woman. 8. The Runaway Bride 9. Jane Eyre
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Quora
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What is Hollywood’s most memorable romance? - Quora
Answer (1 of 3): The original … which created the template for every “Hollywood Romance” that’s followed. Fairbanks in costume, screenwriter Frances Marion, director Allan Dwan, director C.B. DeMille (already in jodhpurs), Pickford, and Adolph Zukor in front of Pickford’s studio bungalow, Octobe...
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Quora
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What are some best Hollywood romantic movies to watch? - Quora
Answer (1 of 4): Sixteen Candles (1984) A girl's "sweet" sixteenth birthday becomes anything but special as she suffers from every embarrassment possible. When Harry Met Sally... (1989) Harry and Sally have known each other for years, and are very good friends, but they fear sex would ruin the...
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IMDb
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Epic Love Stories or at Least Really Good Ones
A modern romantic tale about a young aristocratic heiress born under a curse that can only be broken when she finds true love with "one who will accept her as one of their own."DirectorMark PalanskyStarsChristina RicciJames McAvoyReese Witherspoon ... A car accident puts Paige in a coma, and when she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband Leo works to win her heart again.DirectorMichael SucsyStarsRachel McAdamsChanning TatumSam Neill ... The story of a terminally ill teenage girl who falls for a boy who likes to attend funerals and their encounters with the ghost of a Japanese kamikaze pilot from WWII.DirectorGus Van SantStarsMia WasikowskaHenry HopperRyô Kase
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Reddit
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r/romancemovies on Reddit: Good Romance Movies?
February 21, 2025 -

Hi ! My boyfriend and I are looking for some good romance movies for our movie date. I thought I'd ask here along with a few other spots.
We want movies that have happy endings. If you can, tell me a little about the plot too, please! Thank you all (: I don't mind if its cheesy or has adultery topics, but we do need something that'll hold our attention.

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Most of my top 5 and even 10 have sad endings, so I guess I'll stay away from those. Here are some of my favorite romcoms: Some Like It Hot- I didn't discover this until very recently, but I absolutely fell in love with it. I'll be honest, the romance isn't the strongest part (although I've come to appreciate it a bit more upon rewatches). It's just so hilarious. Basically a precursor to White Chicks, two musicians witness a mob hit and disguise themselves as girls to join a girl band across the country. Monte Carlo- a retelling of the Prince and the Pauper with Selena Gomez. While You Were Sleeping- a train worker saves her crush from getting run over by a train and while he's in a coma at the hospital, she's mistaken for his fiancee. Things get more complicated when the guy's brother enters the picture. Move Over, Darling- 5 years after his wife is lost at sea, the now legally widowed father of two marries someone new. The day they leave for their honeymoon, the "dead" wife comes home. Undertaking Betty/Plots with a View (US title and UK title)- After killing her mother in-law, a politician's wife falls in love with the mortician. Deciding against a divorce, they plan to stage her death so they can runaway together. Doc Hollywood- The movie that inspired the plot of Cars. That's putting it nicely. Cars ripped it off. Overboard (1987)- A woman loses her memory after an accident and a man claiming to be her husband takes her home. In actuality, he's a guy she owes money to. The Shop Around the Corner- Two rival shop employees have a secret relationship that not even they realize they have. What to Expect When You're Expecting- In the same vein of Think Like a Man, in fact this came out the same year, this is another film based around a popular self-help book. Except instead of advice on relationships, advice on having a baby. The film follows several couples in various circumstances who are expecting. Whether intentionally pregnant, accidentally pregnant, or adopting. 10 Things I Hate About You- a fun (very 90s) retelling of the Taming of the Shrew.
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About Time (my fav, you'll fall in love with the whole Lake family 🧡) - Tim learns he can travel back in his past and use his new found gift to search for true love (with Rachel McAdams) Notting Hill (Julia Roberts & Hugh Grant 🥹) - A movie superstar meet a library owner and they start a romantic relationship, trying combining their opposite lives The F Word (with Daniel Radcliffe & Zoe Kazan) - A depressed guy meets a girl at a party who is already in a relationship. They become friends while he develop feelings for her In Your Eyes (Zoe Kazan, again 😊) - Two people (a man and a woman) found out they can communicate with each other throught their mind and develop a relationship, not knowing if it's real or not
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Rotten Tomatoes
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50 Best New Rom-Coms and Romance Movies (All Of You | Rotten Tomatoes
September 26, 2025 - Find your match with 'The Baltimorons', 'My Oxford Year', 'Oh, Hi!', 'Materialists', 'Jane Austen Wrecked My Life'.
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Prime Video
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Watch Romance movies and TV shows on Prime Video
Love the Coopers · Christmas Romance at the Roanoke Ranch · Hotel For the Holiday · Christmas in the Pines · Hope's Hollywood Christmas · NEW MOVIE · A Furry Little Christmas · Something From Tiffany's · The Pages of My Heart · A Princess for Christmas ·
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/romancemovies › the best romance movie of all time, according to data—and see the rest of the top 100
r/romancemovies on Reddit: The best romance movie of all time, according to data—and see the rest of the top 100
December 23, 2023 - I always thought Doctor Zhivago was a great romance story and movie but didn't see it listed. ... I’m sure other people have other opinions, but I don’t know how you leave Notting Hill or sleepless on Seattle off the list. ... Telling that there’s less than 15 movies out of 100!!! In the last decade, we’ve been in a romance drought for so long. Give us more romance Hollywood!
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IndieWire
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The 47 Best Romance Movies of the 21st Century, Ranked
March 20, 2025 - 'Weekend,' 'Disobedience,' 'Decision to Leave,' 'Moulin Rouge,' 'Take This Waltz,' and more of the best romantic movies of the 21st century.
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NitrateVille
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Top 25 Romantic Films of All Time - NitrateVille.com
Just this week, Moviefone published someone's list of the top 25 romance films of all time. It was interesting and I will be the first to admit that I've not seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or Annie Hall. But I thought it might interest you to see the list and then comment on your own choices...... 25. SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE 24. NOTEBOOK 23. DARK VICTORY (1939) 22. AMELIE 21. LOVE STORY 20.
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Reddit
reddit.com › r/moviesuggestions › what are the most beautiful love stories in film? give me your best suggestions, i desperately need to swoon! thanks!
What are the most beautiful love stories in film? Give me your best suggestions, I desperately need to swoon! Thanks! : r/MovieSuggestions
May 29, 2023 - ... Some of the best acting ever filmed. It's a masterpiece. More replies ... Brokeback mountain is top of my list. ... I love the new Emma! I love love stories where the people are really good friends first and then suddenly decide they would actually make really good partners.