Best Romance Movies to Watch on Criterionchannel
Is love in the air? It sure is all over streaming platforms, where there’s no shortage of romance to cuddle up to. From intimate dramas to love-fuelled adventures, here are the best romance movies and shows to stream now.
A poetic and powerful film about the migrant experience in urban spaces.
Léa Seydoux rewrites her past and future loves with AI in this mysterious existential sci-fi mystery.
A provocative surrealist classic that continues to mystify decades after.
A disillusioned screenwriter gets accused of murder in this devastating noir classic.
A sunkissed talky gleaming with brilliant insights into human relationships.
Memory tears love across past and present in this landmark French New Wave drama.
Abbas Kiarostami plays with reality and fiction in the bemusing final installment of the Koker trilogy.
Being hopelessly in love turns into a leap of faith in this optimistic winter romance.
Two sisters find love in this homage to classic romance musicals.
Two Hong Kong immigrants find a new life, and a new love, in this New York-shot romantic drama.
Revenge takes a surprising intersection in this meticulous and meditative thriller drama.
An absurd, ridiculous parody of classic Chinese dramas that comes with a sweet twist.
Two broke introverts fall in love in this unconventionally deadpan romantic comedy.
Faith and friendship are tested in this bleak, unsettling Romanian drama.
A melancholic and entrancing drama that explores identity and intimate connections through two identical women whose lives briefly intersect.
In my own wished-for parallel universe, French actors Vincent Cassell and Emanuelle Devos are voted the sexiest actors alive. I find them both transfixing and appealing in every role they’ve performed, and they are quite the pair here. Devos plays Carla, a put-upon assistant at a property management company. While good at her job, there […]
A little something for the Scott Fitzgerald (and Gossip Girl) fans.
Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay both won Berlinale Best Actress and Best Actor for this movie. They play a couple who are only a few days away from their 45th marriage anniversary when they learn that the remains of the husband’s first lover have been found. He then starts obsessing about his previous relationship, to […]
This mesmerizing romance from Abbas Kiarostami follows a couple whose relationship transforms over the course of a day.
