Best Romantic Movies of 2022

Whether you’re hopeful or hopeless, romance movies remain a tried and true genre for the connection they’re able to make to the viewer. Relatable struggles abound, and 2022 had no lack of great romance movies that ripped our hearts wide open.

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30 Through My Window (A través de mi ventana)

Raquel’s longtime crush on her next-door neighbor turns into something more when he starts developing feelings for her, despite his family’s objections.

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29 Persuasion

Eight years after Anne Elliot was persuaded not to marry a dashing man of humble origins, they meet again. Will she seize her second chance at true love?

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28 Book of Love

Henry Copper is a rather traditional, uptight English author of romance stories, that focus on love, but are restrained in terms of passion. Unfortunately his one published book is not selling, and he is somewhat lost as what to do. However, his publisher Jen contacts him to tell him that his book is now in fact selling… in one country, Mexico, and that he needs to go there to push the book on a three city book signing tour.

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27 About Fate

Margot Hayes, a realtor, and Griffin Reed, a lawyer, live in very similar homes, at very similar street addresses, in similarly named communities. On December 30, Margot hopes to be proposed to by her boyfriend Kip, so that she might go to her sister’s wedding engaged. However, when it does not happen, she walks out.

Meanwhile, in the same restaurant, Griffin tries to propose to his girlfriend, Instagram influencer Clementine. However, she insists he do it again for her publicly the next night. He then gets day drunk with his buddies, and when they order a taxi for him, they give the driver the wrong address — Margot’s, as hers is very similar to his.

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26 Something from Tiffany’s

Nothing compares to the magic and excitement of the holidays in New York City, where the streets blaze with lights, windows dazzle and a special box from Tiffany could change the course of a person’s life. Or several lives. Rachel and Gary are happy enough but not quite ready for that big commitment. Ethan and Vanessa, the perfect picture, are just about to make it official. When a simple mix-up of gifts causes all of their paths to cross, it sets off a series of twists and unexpected discoveries that lead them where they’re truly meant to be. Because love — like life — is full of surprises, in the holiday romance Something from Tiffany’s.

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25 Crush

Paige Evans is a student at Miller High School who has a passion for art and hopes to study at a summer program at her dream school, CalArts. She struggles with the prompt which is to describe her happiest moment; she considers her unrequited long-time crush on popular student Gabby Campos as a possible topic. Further complicating matters is ‘KingPun’, an anonymous artist who vandalizes the school with pun-based graffiti. Paige is widely suspected by students and school administration of being the culprit due to her interest in art. In order to avoid suspension, she agrees to join the track team while also discovering who the real KingPun is.

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24 Velga (Велга)

The story unfolds somewhere on the shore of the North Sea. Velga and Kirill grew up together, have known each other since childhood. But their feeling of falling in love has matured and fully revealed itself not so long ago. It seems that nothing is able to overshadow their carefree, happy existence, until Velga’s older sister, Snega, arrives from the city on the anniversary of her mother’s death.

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23 A Perfect Pairing

LA-based wine executive Lola feels underappreciated by her boss Calder at Mythos, who pays no attention to her ideas. A chef, knowing of her frustration, introduces her to a little-known wine of an Australian company which has yet to go international.

Lola secretly tells her workmate Audra about the Vaughn winery, who then pitches them to their boss behind Lola’s back. So, she starts up her own company and flies to Australia to secure the potential client.

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22 The In Between

After surviving a car accident that took the life of her boyfriend, a teenage girl believes he’s attempting to reconnect with her from the after world.

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21 I Want You Back

In Atlanta, thirty-somethings Peter and Emma are each dumped by their respective romantic partners: Peter’s girlfriend Anne feels stifled by the complacency of their six-year relationship, and Emma’s boyfriend Noah is discouraged by her lack of responsibility. Peter and Emma are both heartbroken, but after a chance meeting they become friends and try to help one another navigate their breakups.

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20 Ticket to Paradise

A divorced couple teams up and travels to Bali to stop their daughter from making the same mistake they think they made 25 years ago.

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19 Marry Me

Music superstars Kat Valdez and Bastian are getting married before a global audience of fans. But when Kat learns, seconds before her vows, that Bastian has been unfaithful, she instead decides to marry Charlie, a stranger in the crowd.

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18 Love Tactics (Ask Taktikleri)

Aslı Yıldırım is 28 years old and is Glamour brand’s chief designer. She also has a blog named Love Tactics where she advises her followers on relationships. One night, one of her followers challenged her to use these tactics to make a guy fall in love with her.

Meanwhile, Kerem Aksoy is 30 years old and an Advertisment Executive. Kerem loses a potential project to his friend and colleague Tuna. Tuna agrees to give Kerem back his project, but on one condition. Kerem has to make a girl fall in love with him

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17 Signs of Love

A young man struggling for a good life meets a deaf girl from a well-off nearby family, he suddenly sees hope for love, and a better life but only if he can escape the predicament of the streets and the influence of his older sister.

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16 The Valet

A movie star enlists a parking valet at a Beverly Hills restaurant to pose as her lover to cover for her relationship with a married man.

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15 The Land of Sasha (Страна Саша)

Seventeen-year-old Sasha is an introvert, afraid of relationships. He is in doubt on what career to pursue. He blames his father, who abandoned him in his childhood, for all the decisions he cannot make. But when he meets an unusual girl Zhenya, and his father comes back his life, Sasha has no other choice other then to grow up.

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14 Along for the Ride

The summer before college Auden meets the mysterious Eli, a fellow insomniac. While the seaside town of Colby sleeps, the two embark on a nightly quest to help Auden experience the fun, carefree teen life she never knew she wanted.

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13 An Inconvenient Love

Ayef works in the 24-Ever convenience store who aspires of becoming a professional animator in Singapore. Her focus on her dream leaves her no time for love until she meets a company heir Manny, who runs his own plant boutique shop—HalaManny—and who secretly works as a social activist, fighting beside the workers of a corporation owned by his father. After an unexpected meeting, they get along because of their shared belief towards love—it is just another inconvenience. Eventually, they fall in love and agreed to a contractual love with an expiration date. As the feared deadline date nears, will they end their contractual relationship or will love end their inconvenient beliefs?

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12 Look Both Ways

On the eve of her college graduation, Natalie’s life diverges into parallel realities: one in which she becomes pregnant and remains in her hometown to raise her child and another in which she moves to LA to pursue her dream career.

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11 Rosaline

Rosaline is a forward-thinking, ambitious young lady from the house of Capulet. She has been secretly seeing Romeo, a member of the Capulets’ rivals, the Montagues, and promises to meet him at the Capulet masquerade ball. Rosaline misses the ball due to a meeting with a suitor, Dario Penza, that goes awry when they are trapped on a boat in a storm; meanwhile, Romeo becomes smitten with Rosaline’s cousin Juliet. Rosaline follows Romeo and sees him wooing Juliet.

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10 Press Play And Love Again (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.

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9 Four to Dinner (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.

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8 The Tasting (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.

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7 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.

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6 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.

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5 Waiting for 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.

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4 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.

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3 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.

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2 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.

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1 20th Century Girl (20세기 소녀 | 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.

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