Topic: Romantic Drama

Explore the top movies, series, and documentaries on Romantic Drama. Enjoy the must-watch titles that define this topic.


Sunrise

1927 · Movie · 94 min. · United States

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing

Plot A farmer (George O' Brien) lives happily with his wife (Janet Gaynor) until he meets an attractive woman from the city (Margaret Livingstone). The farmer falls in love with this...

8.4

14K votes

8.4

14K votes

Casablanca

1942 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

Direction Michael Curtiz

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Ingrid Bergman · Paul Henreid · Claude Rains

Plot Humphrey Bogart plays Richard "Rick" Blaine, a cynical but good-hearted American whose café is the gathering place for everyone from the French Police to the black market to the Nazis....

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8.4

96K votes

8.4

96K votes

Limelight

1952 · Movie · 145 min. · United States

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Plot An old clown (Charles Chaplin), after preventing the suicide of a young dancer (Claire Bloom), takes care of her and tries to teach her everything he knows about theater so...

Max

8.3

13K votes

8.3

13K votes

Doomed Love (TV Miniseries)

1979 · Series · 261 min. · Portugal

Direction Manoel de Oliveira

Cast António Sequeira Lopes · Cristina Hauser · Elsa Wallencamp · Antonio Costa

Plot TV miniseries (1979). 6 episodes. A story set in the beginning of the XIX century about a doomed love between to people from different worlds and its impact in their...

8.2

107 votes

8.2

107 votes

Children of Paradise

1945 · Movie · 190 min. · France

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Plot It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in...

8.2

3K votes

8.2

3K votes

The Crucified Lovers

1954 · Movie · 102 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Kazuo Hasegawa · Kyôko Kagawa · Yôko Minamida · Eitarô Shindô

Plot Set in 17th century Kyoto, Osan is married to Ishun, a wealthy miserly scroll-maker. When Osan is falsely accused of having an affair with the Ishun’s most trusted servant, Mohei,...

8.1

2K votes

8.1

2K votes

The Heiress

1949 · Movie · 115 min. · United States

Direction William Wyler

Cast Olivia de Havilland · Montgomery Clift · Ralph Richardson · Miriam Hopkins

Plot Catherine Sloper is a shy and backwards young woman who lives with her father, Dr. Austin Sloper, in 1849 New York. By all accounts Catherine's mother was a beautiful and...

8.1

7K votes

8.1

7K votes

Brief Encounter

1945 · Movie · 85 min. · United Kingdom

Direction David Lean

Cast Celia Johnson · Trevor Howard · Stanley Holloway · Joyce Carey

Plot Laura Jesson is a country housewife bored with the security of her husband and family. She goes into town once a week for shopping and a matinee picture. On one...

8.1

11K votes

8.1

11K votes

Fruits Basket: The Final (TV Series)

2021 · Series · 23 min. · Japan

Direction Yoshihide Ibata

Plot TV Series (2021). 13 Episodes. Sequel and last arc of "Fruits Basket" anime series.

8.0

70 votes

8.0

70 votes

The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums

1939 · Movie · 143 min. · Japan

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Kakuko Mori · Kôkichi Takada · Yôko Umemura

Plot Tokyo, 1885. Kikunosuke, son of the famous actor Kikugoro, is openly praised for his performance on the stage. His success is actually due to his name; only Otoku, the wet-nurse...

8.0

2K votes

8.0

2K votes

Letter from an Unknown Woman

1948 · Movie · 86 min. · United States

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Joan Fontaine · Louis Jourdan · Mady Christians · Marcel Journet

Plot In Vienna, about 1900, a dashing man arrives at his flat, instructing his manservant that he will leave before morning: the man is Stefan Brand, formerly a concert pianist, planning...

8.0

8K votes

8.0

8K votes

8.0

23 votes

Doctor Zhivago

1965 · Movie · 197 min. · United States

Direction David Lean

Cast Omar Sharif · Julie Christie · Geraldine Chaplin · Alec Guinness

Plot Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, "Doctor Zhivago" covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri...

7.9

35K votes

7.9

35K votes

1 Litre of Tears (TV Series)

2005 · Series · 45 min. · Japan

Direction Shosuke Murakami · Takao Kinoshita

Cast Erika Sawajiri · Ryô Nishikido · Hiroko Yakushimaru · Riko Narumi

Plot The story of a family whose 15-year old eldest daughter comes down with an incurable disease (Spinocerebellar Degeneration) but puts up a fierce battle to live while bearing up under...

7.9

159 votes

7.9

159 votes

Your Lie in April (TV Series)

2014 · Series · 25 min. · Japan

Direction Kyōhei Ishiguro

Plot TV Series (2014-2015). 1 season. 23 episodes. Arima Kousei is a former child prodigy who lost his ability to play the piano when his mother died. His daily life is...

7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

In a Lonely Place

1950 · Movie · 91 min. · United States

Direction Nicholas Ray

Cast Humphrey Bogart · Gloria Grahame · Frank Lovejoy · Carl Benton Reid

Plot Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred...

7.9

7K votes

7.9

7K votes

Gone With the Wind

1939 · Movie · 238 min. · United States

Direction Victor Fleming · George Cukor · Sam Wood

Cast Vivien Leigh · Clark Gable · Olivia de Havilland · Leslie Howard

Plot When wealthy Southern belle Scarlett O'Hara (Vivien Leigh) learns that Ashley Wilkes (Leslie Howard), whom she's secretly in love with, is engaged to Melanie Hamilton (Olivia de Havilland), she decides...

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7.9

57K votes

7.9

57K votes

The Cranes are Flying

1957 · Movie · 94 min. · Soviet Union (USSR)

Direction Mikhail Kalatozov

Cast Tatyana Samojlova · Aleksey Batalov · Vasiliy Merkurev · Aleksandr Shvorin

Plot Veronica and Boris are walking in the streets of Moscow and they love each other. Veronica is laughing, cause they are happy together this morning. They see some cranes in...

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7.9

2K votes

7.9

2K votes

The Earrings of Madame De...

1953 · Movie · 102 min. · France

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Danielle Darrieux · Charles Boyer · Vittorio De Sica · Jean Debucourt

Plot A woman lies to her husband about having sold a pair of diamond earrings which were a gift from him. He discovers it thanks to the indiscreet jeweller. She is...

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7.9

3K votes

7.9

3K votes

The River

1951 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jean Renoir

Cast Patricia Walters · Adrienne Corri · Nora Swinburne · Esmond Knight

Plot Harriet (Patricia Walters) is a pensive, awkward, and fanciful adolescent growing up in Bengal near the banks of the river. The eldest child of a jute factory manager (Esmond Knight),...

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7.8

4K votes

7.8

4K votes