Stream One of These Romantic Movies on Netflix for Your Next Date Night (2024)

Based on the steamy novel by D.H. Lawrence, this film stars The Crown's Emma Corrin as a woman who, after her husband returns from the war wounded, is shuttled off from the city to a country estate. She's miserable until she starts an affair with the estate's gamekeeper. (Swooning ensues.)

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She's a hard-working executive for a wine company, he runs a sheep farm in Australia. To land a big client, she has to prove her mettle on the farm. It's basically the premise for every Hallmark holiday movie, only without the sweaters and plaid scarves.

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Dakota Johnson stars in this Jane Austen adaptation about a woman who reconnects with a man she once meant to marry. And while the movie takes place in a period setting, the filmmaking feels very modern, with Johnson breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.

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Jordan Fisher and Talia Ryder star in this movie about a couple who will be separated when Talia goes off to college. She wants a clean break; he thinks if he plans the perfect goodbye date, she'll be convinced to stay with him. Can their love go the distance?

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If you also find yourself burning the midnight oil, this might be for you. Based on a book by Sarah Dessen, the film follows Auden, a teenage insomniac who wanders her town at night. It's then that she meets Eli, a fellow night owl who is determined to give her all the experiences she's missed out on.

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Another good choice for those who want a little sci-fi and action thrown in with their romance, this film takes place in a futuristic prison, where inmates get an enormous amount of freedom — because they agree to wear devices that will use mind-altering drugs on them if they get out of line. But when two prisoners fall for each other, they hatch a plan to beat the chemicals and escape. Chris Hemsworth stars as the prison's pharmacological visionary, and Miles Teller and Jurnee Smollett are the inmates, all directed by Top Gun: Maverick's Joseph Kosinski.

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A fictional imagining of the life of Marilyn Monroe, Blonde serves up romance alongside tragedy. It goes through many of the major relationships in the star's life, from the exciting beginnings to the heartbreaking end.

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This is a Sliding Doors-style movie, where the film follows two different, possible paths taken by the character, played by Riverdale's Lili Reinhart. In one, she gets pregnant and stays in her hometown to raise the baby. In another, she goes off to Los Angeles to pursue her career. Watch to find out whether either path leads to true love.

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This is another romance of the star-crossed variety, courtesy of Tyler Perry. In it, a blues musician named Bayou and a young girl named Leanne fall in love, and the movie traces their relationship through decades as it intersects with their town's history and scandals.

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This film's love stories take place across two timelines, as it balances the tale of Ellie (Felicity Jones), a contemporary journalist who finds a misfiled love letter from a clandestine couple in the 1960s (played by Shailene Woodley and Callum Turner) and that love story itself. As Ellie begins to research that affair, her own love life takes a turn.

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A pandemic project, this film follows a couple in real time, in a limited location, as they explore truths about their relationship — making it feel almost like a play. It stars Zendaya and John David Washington, who are so smoking hot they all but send sparks off the screen.

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If you want your romances to tug at the heartstrings, this one, based on a YA book by Jennifer Niven, will do the trick. It's about two teenagers, each dealing with death in their own way, and how they make a connection despite their scars.

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In a modern-day twist on Cyrano de Bergerac, this film follows Ellie Chu, a high-school outcast who does other kids' homework for money. When a jock offers to pay her to write letters to his crush, she finds herself getting a little too invested in the assignment.

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Perhaps more of a "com" than a "rom," The Lovebirds follows a very-much-in-love couple — played by comedians Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani — who are mistakenly taken for killers, forcing them to go on the lam. If they can stick together through that, surely you and your main squeeze can work out whose turn it is to walk the dog, right?

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For something with a festive spin, Holidate spans all the holidays of the year. In it, a young, busy, single woman strikes up an arrangement with a similarly single guy to be each other's plus-ones for every holiday gathering, just to fend off questions and set-ups from relatives. But can they keep it to the platonic terms of their agreement?

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Netflix proves why it's the go-to place when you're in the mood for a romantic comedy: This one is about a lawyer who takes on a client that wants to sue a dating site that guarantees its users will find true love. She might not have found her match on the site, but she might just find it in the courtroom.

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Pull on your cowboy boots and cowboy hat for this one: It follows the story of a young rodeo rider who falls in love with a councilman's daughter. Watch to see how wild the west really gets.

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This film stars Ali Wong and Randall Park, so you know it definitely falls on the "rom-com" side of romance. They play people who knew each other as kids, and reconnect as adults after not seeing each other for years, possibly rekindling their teenage spark.

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Is it even a Netflix romance if Noah Centineo isn't in it? In this one, he plays a guy who developed an app that lets girls rent him out for fake dates — they get to choose his personality and everything. But when the real him starts to fall for someone, things get complicated.

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This movie starts off with heartbreak, making it perfect for anyone trying to get over a breakup. The film follows Jenny, still hurting from getting dumped, who goes out for a night with her girlfriends, but can't help but cross paths with her ex.

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