Best Romantic Movies of 2022


10 Press Play And Love Again (Press Play)

Press Play

Laura and Harrison have the picture-perfect romance built on the foundation of a shared love of music. After a deadly accident, Laura is given the chance to save the love of her life when she discovers that their mixtape can transport her back in time. Featuring a moving soundtrack with songs by Japanese Breakfast, Father John Misty, Dayglow and more, Press Play reminds you that love can always be replayed.

Director: Greg Björkman
Writers: James Bachelor, Greg Björkman
Starring: Clara Rugaard, Lewis Pullman, Lyrica Okano
Box office: $216 000

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9 Four to Dinner (Quattro metà)

Quattro metà

In this rom-com challenging the concept of soulmates, parallel storylines portray four single friends as they pair up in different couple combinations.

Director: Alessio Maria Federici, Vitaly Sumin
Writers: Martino Coli
Starring: Ilenia Pastorelli, Matilde Gioli, Giuseppe Maggio

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8 The Tasting (La dégustation)

La dégustation

Hortense has a big heart and no one to share it with except her cat, her embittered mom, and a group of homeless people for whom she prepares a gourmet dinner at the local church every week. While buying a nice bottle of wine, Hortense meets Jacques, a fifty-something, grumpy local cellarman. Eager to see him again, she attends a chaotic wine tasting in Jacques’ shop – meeting his best friend who clumsily tries to seduce her, and his new apprentice who turns out to have a rare gift for tasting as well as an unfiltered honesty. As Hortense and Jacques grow closer and closer, their past begins to catch up to them.

Director: Ivan Calbérac
Writers: Ivan Calbérac
Starring: Isabelle Carré, Bernard Campan, Mounir Amamra
Box office: $2 000 000

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7 Redeeming Love

Redeeming Love

During the 1850s, a beautiful young woman called Angel works as a prostitute in the fictional California town of Pair-a-Dice. Despite being the object of desire for the local men, she survives through hatred and self-loathing. Meanwhile, a visiting farmer named Michael Hosea prays to God and asks for help finding a wife. Later that day, he sees Angel walking through town and falls in love at first sight.

Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: D.J. Caruso, Francine Rivers
Starring: Abigail Cowen, Tom Lewis, Eric Dane
Box office: $9 464 000

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6 Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover

After marrying Baronet Clifford Chatterley, Constance “Connie” Reid moves from London to the impressive Chatterley estate in Wragby. They consummate the marriage and Clifford returns to fight in World War I the following day. Weeks later, Clifford comes home, paralysed from the waist down, leading him to need full time care. Connie does her best but, over time, his handicap, as well as his impotence and lack of affection toward her, begin to wear on her.

Director: Laure De Clermont-Tonnerre
Writers: David Magee, D.H. Lawrence
Starring: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Matthew Duckett

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5 Waiting for Bojangles (En attendant Bojangles)

En attendant Bojangles

A young boy, Gary, lives with his eccentric parents and an exotic bird in a Parisian apartment. And each night, Gary’s parents Camille and Georges dance lovingly to their favorite song, Mr. Bojangles. There is only room for fun, fantasy, and friends at home. But as his mesmerizing and unpredictable mother descends deeper into her mind, it is up to Gary and his father to keep her safe.

Director: Regis Roinsard
Writers: Romain Compingt, Olivier Bourdeaut
Starring: Virginie Efira, Romain Duris, Grégory Gadebois
Box office: $4 546 000

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4 Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts

In spite of their many differences, Cassie, a struggling singer-songwriter, and Luke, a troubled Marine, agree to marry solely for military benefits. But when tragedy strikes, the line between real and pretend begins to blur.

Director: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
Writers: Kyle Jarrow, Liz W. Garcia
Starring: Nicholas Galitzine, Sofia Carson, Chosen Jacobs

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3 Emily

Emily

“Emily” imagines the transformative, exhilarating, and uplifting journey to womanhood of a rebel and a misfit, one of the world’s most famous, enigmatic, and provocative writers, who died, too soon, at age 30.

Director: Frances O’Connor
Writers: Frances O’Connor
Starring: Emma Mackey, Oliver Jackson-Cohen, Fionn Whitehead
Box office: $1 653 000

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2 Cha Cha Real Smooth

Cha Cha Real Smooth

Fresh out of college and stuck at his New Jersey home without a clear path forward, 22-year-old Andrew begins working as a party starter for bar/bat mitzvahs—where he strikes up a unique friendship with a young mom and her teenage daughter.

Director: Cooper Raiff
Writers: Cooper Raiff
Starring: Cooper Raiff, Dakota Johnson, Evan Assante

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1 20th Century Girl (20세기 소녀 | 20segi sonyeo)

20segi sonyeo

Set in 1999, the story revolves around Na Bo-ra, a seventeen-year-old high school student with a bright personality. Bo-ra’s best friend, Yeon-du, who has been preparing to visit the US for heart surgery, suddenly declares that she cannot leave as she has fallen in love with a boy from their school whose name she knows as Baek Hyun-jin. Bo-ra promises that she will follow Baek Hyun-jin, find out everything about him, and email what she discovers. Reassured, Yeon-du departs.

Director: Woo-ri Bang
Writers: Woo-ri Bang
Starring: Yoo-jeong Kim, Hyo-ju Han, Woo-Seok Byeon

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