Best Romance Movies to Watch on Hoopla
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.
Two girls try to figure out their future in this personal, coming-of-age indie.
Yet another tortured-soul-thriller-banger by one of American indie cinema's best.
A clever, queer spin on post-college disillusionment led by an endearingly annoying main character.
Scarlet’s fairy tale of a story means it feels somewhat slight, but it’s elevated by singular visuals and a bolt-from-the-blue performance.
A blind man takes a journey to the woman he loves in this brilliant, immersive drama.
A highly entertaining period drama where newspaper gossip becomes a weapon.
A social recluse transforms into an unexpected underdog in this sweet and understated comedy drama.
In The Magic of Ordinary Days, a Hallmark movie set in the heartland during World War II, Keri Russell plays Livvy Dunne-Singleton, a college-educated young woman who is forced to marry a simple farmer after her father finds out she got pregnant out of wedlock. If you watch enough Hallmark movies, you can probably guess […]
An old bath house reaches its end in this bizarre, eccentric experimental fantasy.
A child remembers her family in this wistful romantic period drama.
A witty and refreshing comedy-of-errors depicting the gay community in the big city.
«When comedians get a bit older they do a movie with “emotions” in it. Here’s mine.» Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement on Twitter. People Places Things is exactly that, a funny yet heartfelt comedy. Will Henry, A New York City graphic novelist walks in on his girlfriend cheating on him at their kids’ birthday […]
A refreshingly bold, ambitious look at immigrant assimilation that also announced the arrival of Daniel Day-Lewis.
A sublime animated love letter to the pre-Castro Cuban nightlife and music.
A Swedish film about a world-famous conductor who suddenly interrupts his career to return alone to his childhood village in Norrland. It doesn’t take long before he is asked to come and listen to the fragment of a church choir, which practices every Thursday in the parish hall. “Just come along and give a little bit of […]
Ask yourself how many Palestinian movies you have seen before. You will want to give this smart and twisty Academy Award nominee by Golden Globe winning director Hany Abu-Assad a chance to change your answer. Omar, a Palestinian baker, climbs the West Bank Wall to see his lover, Nadia, whom he wants to marry. When […]
A unique romantic comedy that takes dark and unexpected turns.
A girl teaches a boy the joys of life and vice versa in this standout romcom road film.
A simple and sweet movie about love, trust, and space. Adam is a 30-something year old with Aspergers syndrome, this film is about how he navigates his way through loneliness and love and all things in between. It is both humorous and slightly heart-breaking, and will leave you feeling that way as well. Maybe the reason we all […]
A slick, well-made musical adaptation that might not be perfect, but remains a classic nonetheless.
Warm, enchanting, poetic and delicate, this is an almost silent film about a poor Vietnamese girl who goes to work for a well-off family in Saigon. The film follows her experiences as she grows but is also very focused on the nature around her, and the beautiful little details of this nature, which the young […]
A melancholic Western cult classic that marked a turning point in Hollywood cinema.
Though it starts off somewhat slow, I was delightfully surprised at how much I loved this movie. A 28-year-old man ventures through Europe with a buddy, ending in Copenhagen, where he hopes to contact the last of his family. There he enlists a local girl to help him. An interesting relationship unfolds as they take […]
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family’s longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, Petal, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the newspaper […]
I loved this movie. It starts a bit weird but gets so good. In a parallel world where human frequencies determine luck, love, and destiny, Zak, a young college student, must overcome science in order to love Marie, who emits a different frequency than his own. In an attempt to make their love a reality, […]
