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Best Romance on Max, ranked by IMDb rating

140 romance titles on Max rate 6.0+ on IMDb — the top 50 are ranked below.

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Casablanca (1943)
★ 8.5 IMDb   🍅 99%   MC 100   PG · 1h 42m · Drama · Romance
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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Modern Times (1936)
★ 8.5 IMDb   🍅 98%   MC 96   G · 1h 27m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by his lack of experience and habit of being in the wrong place at the wrong time...
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City Lights (1931)
★ 8.5 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 99   G · 1h 27m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Your Name. (2016)
★ 8.4 IMDb   🍅 98%   MC 81   TV-PG · 1h 46m · Animation · Romance · Drama
High schoolers Mitsuha and Taki are complete strangers living separate lives. But one night, they suddenly switch places. Mitsuha wakes up in Taki’s body, and he in hers. This bizarre occurrence continues to happen rando
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Singin' in the Rain (1952)
★ 8.3 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 99   G · 1h 43m · Comedy · Romance
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.
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Scenes from a Marriage (1974)
★ 8.3 IMDb   PG · 2h 49m · Drama · Romance
Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses
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Gone with the Wind (1939)
★ 8.2 IMDb   🍅 90%   MC 97   G · 3h 58m · Drama · War · Romance
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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To Be or Not to Be (1942)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 96%   MC 86   Approved · 1h 39m · Comedy · War · Romance
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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The Red Shoes (1948)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 98%   Approved · 2h 15m · Drama · Romance
A fledgling ballerina falls in love with a brilliant composer, but the jealous head of the ballet company plots to drive them apart.
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The Circus (1928)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 90   G · 1h 12m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
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Safety Last! (1923)
★ 8.1 IMDb   🍅 97%   Not Rated · 1h 14m · Comedy · Romance · Thriller
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 87   PG · 1h 38m · Drama · Romance
In 1960s Hong Kong, two neighbors form an intimate bond after making a discovery about their spouses in this visually stunning tale of unrequited love.
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 98%   MC 95   R · 2h 2m · Drama · Romance
On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman.
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Three Colors: Red (1994)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 100   R · 1h 39m · Drama · Mystery · Romance
Part-time model Valentine unexpectedly befriends a retired judge after she runs over his dog. At first, the grumpy man shows no concern about the dog, and Valentine decides to keep it. But the two form a bond when she re
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Brief Encounter (1945)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 92   Approved · 1h 26m · Drama · Romance
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during th
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 99%   MC 96   Approved · 1h 39m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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A Woman Under the Influence (1974)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 88   R · 2h 35m · Drama · Romance
Mabel Longhetti, desperate and lonely, is married to a Los Angeles municipal construction worker, Nick. Increasingly unstable, especially in the company of others, she craves happiness, but her extremely volatile behavio
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Limelight (1952)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 88%   MC 84   G · 2h 17m · Romance · Drama · Comedy
A fading music hall comedian tries to help a despondent ballet dancer learn to walk and to again feel confident about life.
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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)
★ 8.0 IMDb   🍅 97%   Approved · 2h 43m · War · Drama · Romance
General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always t
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Chungking Express (1994)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 89%   MC 78   PG-13 · 1h 42m · Drama · Comedy · Romance
Two melancholic Hong Kong policemen fall in love: one with a mysterious underworld figure, the other with a beautiful and ethereal server at a late-night restaurant.
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Sing Street (2016)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 79   PG-13 · 1h 46m · Romance · Drama · Music · Comedy
A boy growing up in Dublin during the 1980s escapes his strained family life by starting a band to impress the mysterious girl he likes.
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Wings of Desire (1987)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 79   PG-13 · 2h 8m · Drama · Fantasy · Romance
Two angels, Damiel and Cassiel, glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisible rays of hope to the distressed but never interacting with them. When Damiel falls in love with l
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Beauty and the Beast (1946)
★ 7.9 IMDb   MC 92   Not Rated · 1h 33m · Drama · Fantasy · Romance
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't ret
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La Notte (1961)
★ 7.9 IMDb   🍅 84%   Not Rated · 2h 2m · Drama · Romance
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in Milan.
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Millennium Actress (2002)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 93%   MC 70   PG · 1h 27m · Animation · Drama · Romance
Documentary filmmaker Genya Tachibana has tracked down the legendary actress Chiyoko Fujiwara, who mysteriously vanished at the height of her career. When he presents her with a key she had lost and thought was gone fore
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 97%   MC 86   Not Rated · 1h 31m · Drama · Romance
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrel
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Great Expectations (1946)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 90   Approved · 1h 58m · Drama · Romance
In this Dickens adaptation, orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love
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My Night at Maud's (1969)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 96%   GP · 1h 45m · Romance · Comedy · Drama
Devout Roman Catholic Jean-Louis subscribes to an austere moral code influenced by the philosophy of 17th-century physicist Blaise Pascal. When he spots a pretty girl at church, he promises to one day marry her. But then
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Orpheus (1950)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 97%   Not Rated · 1h 52m · Romance · Fantasy · Drama
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of
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The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)
★ 7.8 IMDb   🍅 97%   Not Rated · 1h 45m · Drama · Romance
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly le
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L'Avventura (1960)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 94%   Not Rated · 2h 24m · Drama · Mystery · Romance
Claudia and Anna join Anna's lover, Sandro, on a boat trip to a remote volcanic island. When Anna goes missing, a search is launched. In the meantime, Sandro and Claudia become involved in a romance despite Anna's disapp
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Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 96%   Not Rated · 1h 43m · Drama · War · Romance
A young academy soldier, Maciek Chelmicki, is ordered to shoot the secretary of the KW PPR. A coincidence causes him to kill someone else. Meeting face to face with his victim, he gets a shock. He faces the necessity of
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The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 98%   G · 2h 5m · Romance · Comedy · Drama
In the seaside town of Rochefort, twin sisters Delphine and Solange dream of love and artistic fulfillment beyond their quiet lives. As sailors, artists, musicians, and chance visitors pass through town during a weekend
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Pandora's Box (1929)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 93%   Not Rated · 1h 49m · Drama · Crime · Romance
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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Mind Game (2004)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 66   Not Rated · 1h 43m · Animation · Romance · Comedy · Drama · Fantasy · Adventure
Nishi is a loser who has a crush on his childhood girlfriend. After an encounter with the Japanese mafia, he journeys to heaven and back, and ends up trapped in an even more unlikely place.
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Pygmalion (1938)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 100%   Approved · 1h 29m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
When linguistics professor Henry Higgins boasts that he can pass off Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle as a princess with only six months' training, Colonel George Pickering takes him up on the bet. Eliza moves into Hi
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Hobson's Choice (1954)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 91%   Not Rated · 1h 48m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
A widower refuses to let his three daughters marry in order to avoid paying settlements, so they'll just have to outsmart him.
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Early Spring (1956)
★ 7.7 IMDb   🍅 100%   MC 84   2h 25m · Drama · Romance
A young salaryman and his wife struggle within the confines of their passionless relationship while he embarks on an extramarital affair.
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Breathless (1960)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 95%   MC 96   Not Rated · 1h 30m · Drama · Crime · Romance
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
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Belle de Jour (1967)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 95%   Approved · 1h 40m · Drama · Romance
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run b
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Jules and Jim (1962)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 94%   MC 97   Not Rated · 1h 45m · Drama · Romance
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship with the exuberant Frenchman Jim and both men fall for the impulsive and beautiful Catherine.
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Happy Together (1997)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 70   Not Rated · 1h 36m · Drama · Romance
A couple travels from Hong Kong to Argentina to revive their relationship but experience turbulence when both men's lives drift in separate directions.
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Happiness (1965)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 88%   Not Rated · 1h 20m · Drama · Romance
Though married to the good-natured, beautiful Thérèse, young husband and father François finds himself falling unquestioningly into an affair with an attractive postal worker.
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Love in the Afternoon (1972)
★ 7.6 IMDb   🍅 87%   R · 1h 37m · Drama · Romance
Successful Parisian lawyer Frédéric is happily married to schoolteacher Hélène. Though he daydreams of affairs with other women, he doesn't come close to acting on such thoughts until he runs into Chloé, a beautiful old
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Love, Simon (2018)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 72   PG-13 · 1h 50m · Comedy · Drama · Romance
Everyone deserves a great love story, but for 17-year-old Simon Spier, it's a little more complicated. He hasn't told his family or friends that he's gay, and he doesn't know the identity of the anonymous classmate that
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The Piano Teacher (2001)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 75%   MC 79   R · 2h 11m · Drama · Romance
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
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Weathering with You (2019)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 92%   MC 72   PG-13 · 1h 52m · Animation · Drama · Fantasy · Romance
The summer of his high school freshman year, Hodaka runs away from his remote island home to Tokyo, and quickly finds himself pushed to his financial and personal limits. The weather is unusually gloomy and rainy every d
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Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 99%   MC 94   Approved · 1h 53m · Comedy · Drama · Romance · Family
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
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The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (1972)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 85%   MC 73   Not Rated · 2h 4m · Drama · Romance
Petra von Kant is a successful fashion designer -- arrogant, caustic, and self-satisfied. She mistreats Marlene (her secretary, maid, and co-designer). Enter Karin, a 23-year-old beauty who wants to be a model. Petra fal
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Looking: The Movie (2016)
★ 7.5 IMDb   🍅 89%   TV-MA · 1h 25m · Drama · Romance · TV Movie
Patrick returns to San Francisco for the first time in almost a year to celebrate a momentous event with his old friends. In the process, he must face the unresolved relationships he left behind and make difficult choice

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