Romantic Dramas on Netflix
Last updated January 22, 2025
Be with Me
2005 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsThis poetic film weaves together three stories of human connection with a minimalist flair. In "Meant to Be," an elderly shopkeeper experiences intense loneliness until he reads the autobiography of an extraordinary blind and deaf woman. "So in Love" explores the bittersweet relationship between two teenage girls, and "Finding Love" tells the story of a security guard who has twin passions: for food and for a woman who works in his building.
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Friends
1971 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen an orphaned French girl (Anicée Alvina) living with Parisian relatives meets a rich English lad (Sean Bury) who's run away from home, they become instant chums and decide to create a life apart from the unhappy adult world they inhabit. Escaping to a seaside locale, the two set up house and become lovers. A baby follows, as do grown-up responsibilities -- neither of which the youngsters bargained for in this intimate coming-of-age tale.
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
2009 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsSeven years after she was inspired by the bold debut of Igor Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring," famed fashion designer Coco Chanel (Anna Mouglalis) -- reeling from the death of her beau, Boy Capel (Anatole Taubmann) -- meets and falls for the Russian composer (Mads Mikkelsen) in 1920s Paris. A forbidden romance ensues in Jan Kounen's sumptuous period drama, the closing film of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival.
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Norwegian Wood
2010 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn 1969 Tokyo, college freshman Toru's developing relationship with childhood friend Naoko drags into the present a terrible event both would rather bury. Toru soon awakens to the political and cultural tumult around him in this melancholic tale.
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Restless
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAfter she is diagnosed with a terminal disease, a young girl (Mia Wasikowska) strikes up an unusually strong friendship with a boy (Henry Hopper) who deals with the problems in his own troubled family by attending funerals. Gus Van Sant directs.
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Another Earth
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsAfter a strange Earth-like planet is discovered, astrophysics student Rhoda accidentally slams her car into the vehicle of John, killing his family. In time, Rhoda and John begin an unlikely romance, but Rhoda begins to wonder about the other planet.
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Circumstance
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIranian teens Atafeh and Shireen explore their forbidden attraction to one another against the backdrop of modern-day Tehran. Atafeh's brother, Mehran, returns home after drug rehab and is soon dismayed by his sister's newfound sense of liberation.
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Trishna
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsRaised in rapidly changing rural India, well-educated Trishna is torn between cultural tradition and her own desires when she falls in love with a British businessman who has returned to India to work in his family's hotel business.
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Kiss Me
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhile celebrating her own recent engagement, Mia travels to the Swedish countryside to attend the engagement party of her estranged father. When she meets her soon-to-be stepsister, sparks fly and Mia finds herself unexpectedly falling in love.
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Goodbye First Love
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsIn this lyrical drama, 15-year-old Camille must deal with her devastation when an older boy with whom she's fallen in love leaves to travel through South America. Over the next few years, she grows into a young woman and tries to love again.
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August
2011 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsWhen Troy returns to Los Angeles after many years in Barcelona, he finds that his ex-boyfriend Jonathan has begun dating Raul, a handsome South American immigrant. When Raul senses the sexual tension between the exes, temperatures rise.
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Dangerous Liaisons
2012 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsTwo experts in seduction, Mo Jieyu and her ex-lover Xie Yifan, decide to entertain themselves with a wager involving the innocent beauty Du Fenyu. But when Xie begins falling in love with Du, the cruel erotic game begins to backfire on the players.
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Karakara
2012 | NR | 3.2 out of 5 StarsPierre has decided to pare down his life, renouncing sex and dedicating himself to achieving spiritual peace. But when Junko, a young Japanese woman, shows up at his hotel seeking refuge from an abusive husband, things don't go as planned.
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Jhoom Barabar Jhoom
2007 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSparks fly when strangers Rikki and Alvira strike up a conversation while waiting for their significant others at a train station. After they part ways, both realize they've just met their soul mate. But will these true romantics ever get together?
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Tulpan
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsFreshly discharged from the Russian navy, young Asa (Askhat Kuchencherekov) returns to the arid Kazakh steppe to find a bride and become a shepherd. But his plans go awry when Tulpan, the only eligible bachelorette around, rejects him because his ears are too big. What's more, Asa turns out to be a lousy shepherd. Can his persistence win Tulpan's love, the respect of his flock and the life he dreams of? Documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy directs.
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Me and Orson Welles
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsThe story of a whirlwind week in 1937 NYC when a young aspiring actor (Zac Efron) is thrown into the middle of Orson Welles' Mercury Theatre Company on the eve of the opening of Welles' historic staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar.
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
2009 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen her husband, who's 30 years her senior, relocates the family to a retirement community, flawless wife and mother Pippa Lee slides toward a nervous breakdown as she reflects on her tumultuous past and befriends her neighbor's enigmatic son.
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The Beautiful Person
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter transferring to a new high school, beautiful Junie (Léa Seydoux) starts dating fellow student Otto (Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet), but she soon finds herself falling for Nemours (Louis Garrel), an Italian teacher already entangled in secret affairs with a pupil and colleague. Loosely based on Madame de Lafayette's novel La Princesse de Clèves, this French drama explores the great pain that often accompanies love.
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Life in Flight
2008 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWith a beautiful wife (Amy Smart), an adoring son (Kevin Rosseljong) and an accomplished career, New York-based architect Will (Patrick Wilson) thinks he has it all -- until a new friendship with dynamic young designer Kate (Lynn Collins) reveals the cracks in his too-perfect life. With long-repressed doubts now in the open, Will must reconsider the direction of his life from the bottom up. Tracey Hecht directs this existential drama.
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Every Day
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsNed is fed up with his unfulfilling work as a writer on a flawed television show and his stagnant marriage to wife Jeannie. Just when he thinks life can't get worse, his teenage son announces he's gay and his ailing father-in-law moves in.
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Agnosia
2010 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfflicted with agnosia -- a neuropsychological disorder that disrupts her perception of outside stimuli -- Joana attempts to protect a valuable secret that only she knows from mysterious forces conspiring to exploit her unreliable senses.
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The Future
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsSuddenly aware that their lives will radically change in a month's time, Sophie and Jason quit their jobs, pursue new interests and disconnect from the Internet, knowing that their actions will literally change the course of history.
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One Day
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter a romantic tryst on college graduation night, Emma and Dexter pursue separate dreams. This romantic drama based on a novel of the same name checks in with them each year on the same date, tracking their personal and professional progress.
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A Perfect Ending
2012 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsAfter confessing an unusual secret, repressed wife Rebecca Westbridge is prompted by her friends to explore her sexuality with a high-priced call girl. Apprehensive but intrigued by the prospect, Rebecca embarks on an erotic tryst.
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Saheb Biwi Aur Gangster
2011 | NR | 3.1 out of 5 StarsWhen a prince takes a mistress, his neglected wife takes up with her handsome young driver -- who just so happens to be a plant sent by a rival gang. But their mutual passion soon turns to bloodshed.
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