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Best Romantic Movies

Love unfolds through timing, memory, longing, and the courage to speak. These romances favor feeling over formula.

8 films in editorial order

Film 01 · 1995

Before Sunrise

Directed by Richard Linklater

Two strangers spend one night walking and talking through Vienna's open possibilities.

Film 02 · 2004

Directed by Richard Linklater

Nine years later, one afternoon makes unfinished feelings feel immediate again.

Film 03 · 2000

Directed by Wong Kar-wai

Two neighbors find a delicate closeness shaped by restraint and missed timing.

Film 04 · 1942

Directed by Michael Curtiz

In a wartime crossroads, an old love asks for a choice larger than romance.

Film 05 · 2005

Directed by Joe Wright

First impressions and social rules complicate a young woman's search for honest affection.

Film 06 · 2019

Directed by Céline Sciamma

A painter and her subject build a relationship through close looking and limited time.

Film 07 · 2004

Directed by Michel Gondry

A broken relationship leads two people into an experiment with memory and regret.

Film 08 · 2004

Directed by Nick Cassavetes

A long romance is remembered through differences of class, time, and choice.