Top Rated Romance Movies on Kanopy - Page 19

Joyland

2022

Joyland

2022
7.4
As a patriarchal family yearns for the birth of a son to continue their family line, their youngest son secretly joins an erotic dance theatre and falls for its transgender starlet.
Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017

Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti

2017
5.7
In 1891, the French painter Paul Gauguin leaves Paris and travels to Tahiti to renew his art as a free man, far from the European artistic conventionalism. On his journey of discovery, he faces solitude and disease, but he also knows the beauty of wild nature and the love of Tehura, a young native girl who becomes his wife and model.
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.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1923

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1923
6.5
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Esteros

2016

Esteros

2016
6.6
Childhood friends Matías and Jerónimo reach adolescence and experience sexual attraction to each other, before being separated by circumstances. Later, as young adults, they meet again, and the film follows themes of complicated relationships and sexual tensions, as well as issues of homophobia.
College

1927

College

1927
6.8
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up

2020

10 Things We Should Do Before We Break Up

2020
5.3
Sparks fly when self-sufficient single mother Abigail meets magnetic perennial bachelor Ben. On their first date, they collaborate -- in jest -- on the ultimate list: 10 things to do together before they break up. But when fate intervenes, they soon embark on the most challenging journey of all -- building a family together, and the chance to trade their cynicism for hope.
She Came to Me

2023

She Came to Me

2023
6.2
Composer Steven Lauddem is plagued by a creative block which leaves him unable to finish the score for his big comeback opera. When his former therapist-turned-wife Patricia suggests he rekindle his creativity by getting lost in the city, Steven sets out in search of inspiration. His epiphany comes after he meets a spirited woman named Katrina and discovers his life has much more potential than he bargained for, or ever could have imagined.
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.
Silent Light

2007

Silent Light

2007
6.9
Johan and his family are Mennonites from the north of Mexico. Against the law of God and Man, Johan falls in love with another woman.
Housefull 2

2012

Housefull 2

2012
5.5
A comedy of errors wherein four men help each other to fool their prospective father-in-laws creating a cascade of confusion and mayhem.
Memento Mori

1999

Memento Mori

1999
6.2
The ghost of a lesbian high-school girl takes revenge on the people who used to bully her. And another young girl finds her old diary detailing her love and rejection when she was alive.
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 fell 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.
The Myth of the American Sleepover

2011

The Myth of the American Sleepover

2011
6.1
Four young people navigate the suburban wonderland of metro-Detroit looking for love and adventure on the last weekend of summer.
Billy Liar

1963

Billy Liar

1963
6.9
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
Love Affair

1939

Love Affair

1939
7
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship. They arrange to reunite six months later, if neither has changed their mind.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

1999

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

1999
6.3
A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignoring the ridicule he might have to face for this, he takes his wife to Italy in search of her love.
The Innocent

1976

The Innocent

1976
6.8
Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Penny Serenade

1941

Penny Serenade

1941
6.6
Julie and Roger are a love-struck married couple who desperately want to have a child. Tragedy after tragedy gets in their way, as the two attempt to rise above their troubles and fulfill their dreams of parenthood.
That Most Important Thing: Love

1975

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975
7.1
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.