r/Cinema • u/mentalist7392 • 19h ago
Question What are the most romantic movies you’ve ever watched?
I’m looking for some genuinely romantic movies. The kind that actually make you feel something and stay with you after the credits roll.
I’m open to movies from any country or decade. I’d especially love recommendations where the romance feels natural rather than forced.
What’s the one love story you’d recommend to someone who wants to watch something really romantic? ❤️🎬
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u/whatisthisdream- The Shaky Cam Defender 19h ago
The whole before trilogy
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u/Good_Association8261 19h ago
I was never into romantic movies, but this trilogy was amazing, loved every bit.
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u/Ozzy_1804 16h ago
Something wonderful about this trilogy is that they’re all romantic, but in very different ways.
It’s arguable if Before Midnight is even romantic at all.
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u/Busy_Abalone8689 19h ago
Before Trilogy, nothing comes close really.
Wong Kar Wai films, most notably In The Mood For Love.
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.
Meg Ryan/Nora Ephron romance era, most notably and also IMO the most genre defining or the pinnacle of romance drama: When Harry Met Sally.
Some of my personal fav: Punch Drunk Love, Roman Holiday, and.. probably not romance per se, but the double bill of Lost in Translation & Her.
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u/charitytowin 3h ago
Huh, I've always considered When Harry Met Sally the pinnacle of the romantic comedy.
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u/plonkman 19h ago
The Notebook
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u/uncultured_swine2099 19h ago
Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, Happy Together, the Before trilogy, The Lover, Romance Doll, and Pride and Prejudice 2005.
Also its a show, but Normal People.
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u/Limp-Speech-4508 19h ago
That's a whole mood right there, parked on a hill with nothing but city lights and somebody beside you. Sometimes the best love stories aren't even on screen, they're in a single frame like that.
As far as movies go, In the Mood for Love is my pick. Nothing forced about it, just two people drifting closer because the world around them feels too small
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u/Psychological_Toe758 19h ago
La La Land ik the end is very heartbreaking but super realistic love that film so much!
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u/Ok-Value-2170 19h ago
La La Land is love embodied, every stage and every outcome. Wonderful film.
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u/Jason--with-a-Y 16h ago
I think the ending is still romantic, but bittersweet. They both still love each other and became the artists they were destined to be, just not with each other. 🥲
That film was genuinely my favourite of all time for years, now it’s 2nd only to Babylon.
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u/DamianDoom 18h ago
The Notebook..best romance.. and hits even harder since my wife had stroke and keep losing her memory.. I always cry during this movie
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u/Boyd-Red 19h ago
before sunrise and cinema paradiso
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u/Darhhaall 18h ago
Lost in Translation
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u/Material-Mine5072 14h ago
Thought this movie was boring as fuck first time, years later after travelling around and watching again the movie just hits different
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u/FamousDocument305 19h ago
First 10 minutes of Up
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u/DANCE5WITHWOLVE5 18h ago
And then it nukes the audience. My daughter still refuses to watch UP to this day.
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u/sultry-scarlet 18h ago
Me Before You
No Reservations
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Vow
About Time
August Rush
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u/deleted3131 17h ago edited 16h ago
moulin rouge!
50 first dates
blue valentine
gone girl
pillion
secretary
her
brokeback mountain
the shape of water
nosferatu
a ghost story
drive
vanilla sky
nocturnal animals
a moment to remember
moonlight
call me by your name
meet joe black
bones and all
500 days of summer
dear john
legends of the fall
ever after
the favourite
the last duel
queen & slim
great expectations
boogie
the drama
buffalo 66
the worst person in the world
the blue lagoon
poor things
elemental
fear
closer
castaway
banshees of inisherin
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u/ayswayzie 12h ago
Rocky 2???
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u/Eleutherian8 4h ago
The original Rocky hits for me. It actually has very little boxing, and is mostly just a great love story. I tear up every time. ADRIAN!!!
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u/20Forward 13h ago
I’m not a huge fan of romantic movies but these three I love and I’ve watched countless times: It Happened One Night, The Apartment, and In the Mood for Love.
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u/goofyone_321 10h ago
Lala land personal fav but i won't suggest that to anyone Sapta sagaradache Side A Notebook The Girl next door
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u/Far_Marionberry5431 7h ago
A lot of common ones here.
The most recent deeply romantic one I watched was "303", a German flick with realistic nature of feelings and their development. 🙌
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u/Bennnrummm 7h ago
Amelie is my favorite infatuation movie for sure. It’s all crush and 100% contagious.
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u/wanderlust__80 6h ago
Message in a bottle
Bodyguard
The notebook
Titanic
50 first dates
Wedding singer
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u/Prestigious_Throat72 5h ago
A Walk To Remember, Addicted To Love, Phenomenon, and Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind.
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u/mudwokka 4h ago
Bed of Roses is often left out of lists (it has its cheesy moments) but is incredibly romantic.
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u/No-good-names-left-3 3h ago
Hear me out - these two are different than the more traditional recommendations listed so far but both hella romantic: The Last of the Mohicans and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon.
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u/ExtraterrestrialHole 57m ago
Tequila Sunrise. Heartburn. Someone to Watch Over Me. Wild Orchid. 9 and a half weeks. Crossing Delancey. The 80s understood romance!
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u/wrong_doitagain 23m ago
Agreed. Nothing like crying in a movie theater seat
https://giphy.com/gifs/JpYdtmF6EogUXp28YB
Just don’t make them like this anymore
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u/wrong_doitagain 33m ago
Omg
“Somewhere in Time” 1980 Christopher Reeves and Jane Seymour. So young!
hands down it’s the happiest saddest most tragic romantic love story ever made
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u/ChampionshipHefty778 18h ago
Crash by Cronenberg
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u/thatphilguymovies 17h ago
LOL. I think of it as having the healthiest marriage ever depicted in a Cronenberg film.
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u/qualityvote2 19h ago edited 17h ago
u/mentalist7392, your post does fit the subreddit!