Romantic Dramas on Netflix
Last updated August 04, 2025
The Food Guide to Love
2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsOpposites attract, and sparks start to fly in this romantic drama about the love affair of an Irish food columnist and a Spanish political activist. Despite their glaring differences, Oliver falls head-over-heels for the irresistible Bibiana.
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Spies of Warsaw: Season 1
2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsWith World War II looming, a French military attaché is posted to Warsaw and soon finds himself entangled in multiple espionage intrigues. Meanwhile, he falls for a bewitching Parisian attorney also engaged in global political affairs.
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Spies of Warsaw
2013 | NR | 2.9 out of 5 StarsAs Germany prepares to lead the world into war, military attaché Col. Jean-François Mercier tries to convince French leaders of the growing danger. While risking his life to make his case, he unexpectedly falls in love with a Parisian lawyer.
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Assassination Tango
2002 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsEnticed by a tidy sum, a veteran hit man interrupts his domestic life to travel to Argentina to ice a brutal retired general. As the assassin waits for the right moment to take out his target, he passes the time with a willowy young dancer.
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Lianna
1983 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsLianna becomes fed up with her marriage to her cheating husband and begins an affair with Ruth, her night school professor. But Lianna's joy at finding a new life and love soon disintegrates as the people around her start to treat her differently.
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Doosara Aadmi
1973 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsDetermined not to follow in his father's footsteps, ambitious Karan starts his own advertising agency. All goes well until he hires Nisha, a top designer who harbors a secret that threatens to destroy Karan's happy marriage.
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Noorie
1979 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsYoung and beautiful Noorie is in love with Yusuf, and together they hope to build a life and a family. But their blissful reverie is shattered by a couple of village goons who take advantage of the young woman. Can their love survive this trial?
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Friends with Money
2006 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWriter-director Nicole Holofcener's bittersweet tale examines the evolving lives of four female friends living in Los Angeles: married and financially secure Jane (Frances McDormand), Franny (Joan Cusack) and Christine (Catherine Keener), and their single friend Olivia (Jennifer Aniston). As the friends move from one group event to the next, married life starts showing cracks for Jane, Franny and Christine, while Olivia struggles to find herself.
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Khoya Khoya Chand
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsNikhat is an ingénue who sees her career leap from that of an extra to a leading lady; Zafar Ali Naqvi is a headstrong writer determined to make it in competitive Bollywood. Sparks fly when the writer steals the young starlet from a rival.
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Far North
2007 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsSaiva (Michelle Yeoh) lives a tough existence in the Arctic wasteland, hunting for food and other necessities. Her only human contact is with Anja (Michelle Krusiec), a woman she raised from infancy. The arrival of a wounded soldier, Loki (Sean Bean), tests both women's loyalty and resolve. Neither, it seems, is prepared for the man's impact on their lifelong friendship. Award-winning filmmaker Asif Kapadia directs this visually stunning epic.
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Samaantar
2009 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsA prosperous but lonely businessman has suicidal thoughts as his 60th birthday approaches. Then, he runs into his college sweetheart. Her life hasn't turned out the way she'd hoped, either. Can the couple find hope and rekindle their love?
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Hello Goodbye
2008 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsWhen they move to Israel to explore their Jewish heritage and revive their flagging marriage, fiftysomething French émigrés Alain and Gisèle Gaash (Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant) arrive in Tel Aviv to find their luggage lost, their apartment gone and Alain's new job taken. Now, as Alain struggles through this midlife crisis, Gisèle finds herself attracted to a handsome young rabbi. Graham Guit directs this French romantic comedy.
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Beloved
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsIn the 1960s, circumstances separated Madeleine from her husband. Thirty years later, Madeleine watches history repeating itself in the life of her daughter, Véra. But as times change, so do the ways these women respond to love and loss.
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The Deep Blue Sea
2011 | NR | 2.8 out of 5 StarsThis remake of the original 1955 film, adapted from a Terence Rattigan play, stars Rachel Weisz as a wedded woman who falls hard for a younger man. Her determination and emotional obsession lead her into tragic conflict with the morals of the day.
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Shob Charitro Kalponik
2008 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsWhen the poet Indraneel dies, a publisher asks his wife, Radhika, to complete his works. This propels her into a deep reflection about her marriage and the man she shared a life with -- and considered divorcing.
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Making Plans for Lena
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsDeciding to leave her unfaithful husband (Jean-Marc Barr) behind, 34-year-old Léna (Chiara Mastroianni) travels from Paris to her family's country home to gain some emotional refuge and restart her life. To her dismay, Lena discovers that family members have their own plans for her. The first of these comes from her high-strung sister, Frédérique (Marina Foïs), who's arranged a surprise appearance by Léna's ex-husband.
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The Kreutzer Sonata
2008 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsKnowing that his pianist wife, Abby, regrets having given up her career to become a housewife, philanthropist Edgar arranges for her to give a private concert, but he grows suspicious when she spends long hours rehearsing with violinist Aiden.
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Park Benches
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsIn this star-laden slice-of-life comedy set in France, workers ponder a sign reading "Lonely Man" that hangs out the office facing theirs, a mix of visitors traverse the town square and the clerks of a local shop commingle with their patrons.
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Abohomaan
2009 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsAniket, a filmmaker, and Deepti, an actress, are happily married. But trouble brews when Aniket auditions a young starlet who bears an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger.
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Bhairavi
1996 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsAfter being rejected by a prospective groom's family because of her disability, a young blind woman must cope with the sudden loss of her parents. Grief-stricken, she slowly finds hope and love with the man she is instructing in the art of singing.
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30 Beats
2012 | NR | 2.7 out of 5 StarsNew York City is baking in the summer sun, and city residents are pouring out of their houses and into chance encounters and romantic collisions. This sexy comedy highlights the steamy encounters of 10 New Yorkers during a three-day heat wave.
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Sins
2005 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsThis controversial film follows the exploits of two passionate lovers in a relationship that was doomed from the start. Father Williams and young Rosemary begin a seemingly innocent association, but the relationship quickly turns intensely physical.
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Raja
2004 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsRaja (Najat Benssallem), a 19-year-old orphan living on the streets in Morocco, lands a job working in the garden of a wealthy, middle-aged Frenchman, Fred (Pascal Greggory). Fred is quickly smitten with the plucky girl, who's initially suspicious of his intentions. Although a guarded mutual interest develops, their potential romance may be stymied by a web of manipulation, as well as the cultural, economic and generational rift between the pair.
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Water Lilies
2007 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsA Caméra d'Or contender at Cannes, this coming-of-age drama from first-time feature film director Céline Sciamma tracks the sexual awakenings of three female friends over the course of a single summer. Finding privacy in the solitude of the swimming pool locker room, blossoming teens Marie (Pauline Acquart), Anne (Louise Blachère) and Floriane (Adele Haenel) come to learn the true meaning of arousal and the power of sexual attraction.
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Multiple Sarcasms
2010 | NR | 2.6 out of 5 StarsIn 1979, architect Gabriel (Timothy Hutton) begins questioning his existence, avoiding work and escaping into the fictional world of movies. When he starts writing a play examining the choices he's made, it creates issues with his family and friends.
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