Anjali Mathur
Romantic classics, modern romantic tales, romcoms; all of them are an all-time favourite for many of us. Netflix streams hundreds of Romance movies to strike that love cord while you find the story that matches with yours or the one that you dream of. Here, we have curated 13 Romance movies on Netflix with the highest rotten tomatoes scores to keep you entertained.
1. God’s Own Country
RT Score: 98%
The movie is about an English Countryman and a migrant farmhand who fall in love and face a culture that is ignorant and unknown about two men falling in love. God’s own country Starrs Josh O’Connor and Alec Secareanu and is a longing romantic film, perhaps the baser foil to the upper-class Call Me By Your Name.
2. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
RT Score: 97%
A movie for the fans of romance and martial arts, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. A delicious story packed with love triangles, revenge, and a lot of hand to hand combat. The film stars Chow Yun-fat as an accomplished martial artist, Michelle Yeoh as the head of a security company, and Chow Yun-Fa as a martial arts master on the brink of retirement all living together during the Qing dynasty.
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3. To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before
RT Score: 97%
A high school film that everyone who has had a highschool life can relate to. Lana Condor is a hopeless romantic, whose life has turned upside down. The reason, her secret collection of love letters is mysteriously being sent out to every boy she had a crush on in her lifetime.
Her feelings are conveyed to all the boys, and all of them now know how she feels about each of them; including her sister’s boyfriend. Lara seeks Peter Kovinsky’s (Noah Centineo); a former crush’s help to avoid embarrassment.
4. I Lost My Body
RT Score: 96%
A bizarre film about love told most unconventionally, I lost my body. It follows a disembodied hand that creeps around the streets of Paris, desperately searching for its owner. During that dogged search, the hand remembers the body it once belonged to. The hand meets the body of a young girl during the search. We are left with a dwelling question at the end; aren’t we all looking for something to make us feel complete?
5. Howards End
RT Score: 94%
Howards End brings E.M Forster’s classic 1910 novel to life. Starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, and Anthony Hopkins, this is a period piece following a pair of sisters caught in the throes of an embattled family that mirrors class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century Britain. Howards End is a story about inheritance, duty, and love. It is a universally-loved film that satisfies the need for a class-breaking romance.
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6. Her
RT Score: 94%
Her is an unconventional romance story about a withdrawn writer who falls in love with his computer’s AI system (voiced by Scarlett Johansson). Written and directed by Spike Jonze, the story is engaging, but you might never be able to look at Alexa again!
7. Set it Up
RT Score: 92%
Set it Up, starring Glenn Powell and Zooey Deutch is a funny film revolving around two strung-out assistants who conjure a plan to set up their workaholic bosses (Taye Diggs and Lucy Liu) in hopes that they will fall in love and finally get lives outside of the office.
8. Strictly Ballroom
RT Score: 92%
A luscious combination of Dirty Dancing and The Cutting Edge, Strictly Ballroom is a romantic classic by Baz Luhrmann. The story is an emotional love story of a famous professional ballroom dancer and a clumsy common girl. They pair up after the pro’s unconventional style proves too controversial for his classic colleagues.
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9. The Spectacular Now
RT Score: 91%
The Spectacular Now is a James Ponsoldt’s 2013 drama where a popular bad boy (Miles Teller) meets a shy, nice bookworm girl(Shailene Woodley). The meeting subsequently changed for the better. The plotline takes a better turn, developing a complex storyline that embraces the loose ends that life always leaves us. The Spectacular Now is an emotional and uplifting film about unlikely romances, broken families, and the never-ending pursuit for self-actualization.
10. Up in the Air
RT Score: 91%
A romantic classic, Up in the air, starring George Clooney and Anna Kendrick star is a heartfelt comedy about the heartless corporate world. Ryan Bingham (Clooney) is a professional corporate downsizer and is totally in love with the cutthroat and heartless work that comes with his job. The twist comes when he takes a young, new co-worker (Anna Kendrick) under his wing. In doing so, he is forced to reconcile with the more empathetic side of humanity.
11. Obvious Child
RT Score: 90%
One of the best romcoms, Obvious Child stars Jenny Slate (Parks and Recreation). The film is about an immature young woman caught in pregnancy after a brief fling during her adulthood. The movie is unfailingly honest (and feminist!), strikingly funny, and endearingly romantic.
12. Our Souls at Night
RT Score: 90%
Our Souls at Night, starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford is a touching romantic film. The story is about two widowed neighbors who begin to sleep together at night; just sleep together, to have company. While we know that this is the beginning of a surefire romance, it is just as enthralling and enjoyable watching two Hollywood legends do what they do best: use their undeniable chemistry to fall in love on screen.
13. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape
RT Score: 90%
The movie stars Johnny Depp(Gilbert), is an emotional film depicting the story of a young man who has taken up the responsibility of supporting his extremely-obese mother and his mentally-impaired brother (Leonardo DiCaprio). Gilbert’s world soon has a lot of ups and downs when he meets an energetic young woman who shows him that there is more to life than that.
That is too much love in the air! Watch these romance tales and instill romance everywhere. Go on, its time to binge-watch!
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