Popular Romance Movies on Kanopy - Page 23

Miss Potter

2006

Miss Potter

2006
6.6
Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.
Dandelion

2024

Dandelion

2024
4.9
It follows a singer-songwriter in a downward spiral as she takes a last effort gig at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota where she meets Casey, a guitarist who walked away from his dream long ago.
Solitary Man

2009

Solitary Man

2009
5.9
A car magnate watches his personal and professional life hit the skids because of his business and romantic indiscretions.
India Sweets and Spices

2021

India Sweets and Spices

2021
5.7
A college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.
Romance

1999

Romance

1999
5.5
Frustrated by the lack of intimacy in her relationship, a young schoolteacher goes through a series of intimidating and often violent sexual partners.
Fiddler on the Roof

1971

Fiddler on the Roof

1971
7.7
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
The English Teacher

2013

The English Teacher

2013
5.6
Small-town Pennsylvania schoolteacher Linda Sinclair balances her staid home life with an incredible passion for her subject. Then a former star pupil reenters her life after failing as a playwright in New York City. Seeing in his script the inspiration that she has always longed to instill in her students, this dyed-in-the-wool romantic enlists the help of long-suffering drama teacher Carl to mount the work as the high school’s next and riskiest production.
Mao’s Last Dancer

2009

Mao’s Last Dancer

2009
6.6
At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and taken to Beijing to study ballet. In 1979, during a cultural exchange to Texas, he falls in love with an American woman. Two years later, he managed to defect and went on to perform as a principal dancer for the Houston Ballet and as a principal artist with the Australian Ballet.
Look Both Ways

2005

Look Both Ways

2005
6
During one unusually hot weekend, four friends struggle after hearing some life-changing news.
Summer with Monika

1953

Summer with Monika

1953
7.3
One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.
Brotherhood of Blades

2014

Brotherhood of Blades

2014
6.7
In the late Ming Dynasty, three sworn brothers who serve as the imperial secret police are dispatched to hunt down Wei Zhongxian, a eunuch politician who had been forced to resign from his influential post and exiled from Beijing. The brothers return successfully from their quest, only to find that their task was but the beginning of a strange conspiracy.
Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie

2022

Teasing Master Takagi-san: The Movie

2022
8.4
Takagi and Nishikata’s final summer in junior high is about to begin, and it’s already off to a heartwarming start! When the pair find an abandoned kitten, they decide to work together and take care of Hana, their adorable new companion until they can locate its missing mother.
The African Queen

1952

The African Queen

1952
7.4
At the start of the First World War, in the middle of Africa’s nowhere, a gin soaked riverboat captain is persuaded by a strong-willed missionary to go down river and face-off a German warship.
Jeanne du Barry

2023

Jeanne du Barry

2023
6.9
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Which Brings Me to You

2023

Which Brings Me to You

2023
6.2
Two romantic burnouts, Jane and Will, are immediately drawn to each other at a mutual friend’s wedding. After a disastrous hookup in the coatroom, the two spend the next 24 hours together, trading candid confessions of messy histories and heartbreak, on the off chance that this fling might be the real thing.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

1947
6.8
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Mad Love

1985

Mad Love

1985
5.8
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
Knife+Heart

2018

Knife+Heart

2018
5.9
In the summer of 1979, gay porn producer Anne sets out to film her most ambitious film yet, but her actors are picked off, one by one, by a mysterious killer.
To Catch a Thief

1955

To Catch a Thief

1955
7.3
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The Cat” Robie. To clear his name, he sets out to trap the copycat himself—entangling a wealthy widow and her beguiling daughter in a seductive game of pursuit, deception, and desire.
Café de Flore

2011

Café de Flore

2011
6.9
Jacqueline is a young mother living in 1960s Paris with her disabled son Laurent. Abandoned by her husband, Jacqueline sacrifices everything to care for her son and vows to give Laurent a “normal” life full of happiness. Antoine, is a successful DJ in present day Montreal who seems to have it all: a thriving career, two beautiful daughters, partner Rose, with whom he is passionately in love. However, nothing is perfect and Antoine’s ex-wife Carole remains devastated by their recent separation.