Popular Romance Movies on Kanopy - Page 49

The Names of Love

2010

The Names of Love

2010
7.2
Bahia Benmahmoud, a free-spirited young woman, has a particular way of seeing political engagement, as she doesn't hesitate to sleep with those who don't agree with her to convert them to her cause - which is a lot of people, as all right-leaning people are concerned. Generally, it works pretty well. Until the day she meets Arthur Martin, a discreet forty-something who doesn't like taking risks. She imagines that with a name like that, he's got to be slightly fascist. But names are deceitful and appearances deceiving.
The Hole

1999

The Hole

1999
6.9
In the final days of the year 1999, almost everyone in Taiwan has died from a strange plague that ravished the island. As rain pours down relentlessly, a single man is stuck with an unfinished plumbing job and a hole in his floor. This results in a very odd relationship with the woman who lives below him.
Stateside

2004

Stateside

2004
5
The film follows a rebellious teenager on leave from the Marines who falls in love with a female musician. The relationship is threatened when she develops a mental illness...
The Iron Rose

1973

The Iron Rose

1973
6.2
A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
Disco Pigs

2001

Disco Pigs

2001
5.7
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they make their own rules and have their own language. But days before their 17th birthday the balance of their world begins to shift. Pig's sexual awakening and jealousy begins to threaten their private universe.
Caged Birds

2021

Caged Birds

2021
5.4
Barbara Hug is a young radical lawyer fighting Switzerland's antiquated prison system in the 1980s. Walter Stürm is in and often escaping out of jail becoming known as the Jailbreak King. When the two meet an unlikely alliance is formed.
The Hidden Blade

2004

The Hidden Blade

2004
7.4
Set in 19th Century Japan a young samurai who finds himself in love with a farm girl leaves his home to begin a new life. He has to take stock of his new life when he is put to the test and ordered to kill a traitor who just happens to be his dearest friend.
Lady Chatterley's Lover

1955

Lady Chatterley's Lover

1955
7.1
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.
Max and the Junkmen

1971

Max and the Junkmen

1971
7.1
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Lost Sofia

2023

Lost Sofia

2023
7.1
A modern and independent girl, but when it comes to love, the only novels in her life are those from Jane Austen's literary universe. After using a borrowed cell phone, something mysterious happens and she is transported to a different world, which resembles the 19th century. Sofia is taken in by the family of the charming Ian Clarke, while desperately trying to find a way to return to her life. What she didn't know is that her heart had other plans.
Up in Arms

1944

Up in Arms

1944
5.6
Hypochondriac Danny Weems gets drafted and accidentally smuggles his girlfriend aboard his Pacific-bound troopship.
Purple Violets

2007

Purple Violets

2007
5.8
Patti Petalson is a promising writer, but her marriage and conventional job keep her from her dream. She longs to return to her writing, especially after running into her first love Brian Callahan, a successful crime novelist. Kate is Patti's best friend since college; she's a tough-talking schoolteacher who plays therapist to all Patti's problems, while she's got a few of her own.
Stars Fell on Alabama

2021

Stars Fell on Alabama

2021
6
Successful Hollywood agent Bryce Dixon is returning to Alabama for the first time in 15 years for his high school reunion. When he learns he's the only one of his friends who isn't married with children, he convinces his client, starlet Madison Belle, to pretend to be his girlfriend. But he soon learns that success has different meanings, and romance may be closer than he thinks.
Anaïs in Love

2021

Anaïs in Love

2021
6.2
A young woman struggling to stay on top of everything in her life meets a married publisher and begins an affair with him.
Def by Temptation

1990

Def by Temptation

1990
4.7
An evil succubus is preying on libidinous black men in New York, and all that stands in her way is a minister-in-training, an aspiring actor, and a cop that specializes in cases involving the supernatural.
Life Partners

2014

Life Partners

2014
5.8
A 29-year-old lawyer and her lesbian best friend experience a dramatic shift in their longtime bond after one enters a serious relationship.
The Shrink Is In

2001

The Shrink Is In

2001
4.8
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
Wrapped Up In Christmas

2017

Wrapped Up In Christmas

2017
6.8
With Christmas just around the corner, 8-year-old Molly asks the mall Santa to find a boyfriend for her beloved aunt.
Ask Me to Dance

2022

Ask Me to Dance

2022
5.2
Unlucky in love, Jack and Jill are destined to meet each other before the clock strikes midnight on New Years Eve.
Michael

1924

Michael

1924
6.2
A mature and visually elegant period romance that remains one of the earliest and most compassionate overtly gay-themed films in movie history. Based upon Herman Bang's 1902 novel, Dreyer's Michael refashions the classical Greek myth of Jupiter and Ganymede into a love triangle between an aging artist, Zoret, his protagonist Michael, and Princess Zamikoff, an aristocratic femme fatale as entranced by Michael’s youthful beauty as Zoret is.