Top Rated Romance Movies on Kanopy - Page 23

Emily

2022

Emily

2022
6.9
The imagined life of one of the world’s most famous authors, Emily Brontë, as she finds her voice and writes the literary classic Wuthering Heights. Explore the relationships that inspired her – her raw, passionate sisterhood with Charlotte and Anne; her first aching, forbidden love for Weightman and her care for her maverick brother whom she idolises.
The Decoy Bride

2011

The Decoy Bride

2011
6
A local woman is hired to draw paparazzi away from a Hollywood actress who has come to Scotland to get married.
Mountains May Depart

2015

Mountains May Depart

2015
6.9
The life of Tao, and those close to her, is explored in three different time periods: 1999, 2014, and 2025.
Quantum Love

2014

Quantum Love

2014
5.7
Pierre has been happily married for fifteen years and a good father. Still in love with his wife, he enjoys his wife and family and is content. One evening, he meets Elsa at a party and are immediately attracted to each other. Fifteen days later, they happen to meet again and the mutual attraction turns into infatuation. But his love for his wife and Elsa's rule about not dating married men prevents them from taking the next step. Instead, they fantasize about each other, and soon the fantasies mingle with the reality.
Jane Eyre

1996

Jane Eyre

1996
6.9
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meet the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Mr. Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Mr. Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Robots

2023

Robots

2023
5.6
A womanizer and a gold digger trick people into relationships with illegal robot doubles. When they unwittingly use this scam on each other, their robot doubles fall in love and elope, forcing the duo to team up to hunt them down before the authorities discover their secret.
Words and Pictures

2014

Words and Pictures

2014
6.4
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1919

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1919
6.9
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
Little Fish

2021

Little Fish

2021
7.1
A couple fights to hold their relationship together as a memory loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.
Millennium Mambo

2001

Millennium Mambo

2001
7
Vicky recalls her romances with her exes Hao Hao and Jack in the neon-lit clubs of Taipei.
Camille Rewinds

2012

Camille Rewinds

2012
6.2
Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve's party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself... propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and... be miserable twenty-five years later? Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughter? Who ever said that time traveling was fun?
High Strung Free Dance

2018

High Strung Free Dance

2018
7.3
Zander Raines, a dazzling and tempestuous young choreographer, gives the break of a lifetime to two hopeful artists when he casts a stunning contemporary dancer, Barlow, and innovative pianist, Charlie, in New York’s most-anticipated new Broadway show: Free Dance. But the move throws off the show’s delicate creative balance when Charlie falls hard for Barlow, while Zander embraces her as his muse.
Away from Her

2007

Away from Her

2007
7
Fiona and Grant have been married for nearly 50 years. They have to face the fact that Fiona’s absent-mindedness is a symptom of Alzheimer’s disease. She must go to a specialized nursing home, where she slowly forgets Grant and turns her affection to Aubrey, another patient in the home.
The Pod Generation

2023

The Pod Generation

2023
6
In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babies, his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.
Samson and Delilah

1949

Samson and Delilah

1949
6.5
When strongman Samson rejects the love of the beautiful Philistine woman Delilah, she seeks vengeance that brings horrible consequences they both regret.
What's Love Got to Do with It?

2023

What's Love Got to Do with It?

2023
6
Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
Bergman Island

2021

Bergman Island

2021
6.3
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
The Beast

2024

The Beast

2024
6.3
In the near future where emotions have become a threat, Gabrielle finally decides to purify her DNA in a machine that will immerse her in her past lives and rid her of any strong feelings. She then meets Louis and feels a powerful connection, as if she had known him forever.
A Star Is Born

1937

A Star Is Born

1937
7.2
Esther Blodgett is just another starry-eyed farm kid trying to break into the movies. Waitressing at a Hollywood party, she catches the eye of her idol Norman Maine, is sent for a screen test, and before long attains stardom as newly minted Vicki Lester. She and Norman marry, though his career soon dwindles to nothing due to his chronic alcoholism.
Ball of Fire

1941

Ball of Fire

1941
7.3
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.