Romance Films
Pattern Statistics
751
Movies
7.0
Avg Arcplot
112
Avg Runtime
1920-2024
Year Range
6.7
Avg IMDb
64%
Avg RT
62
Avg Metacritic
$43942M
Total Box Office
281
With Awards
14.0
Avg Plot Points
Romance Films - Narrative Patterns
This compilation of 751 romance films exhibits solid grasp of narrative structure characteristic of the genre. Covering works from 1920 to 2024, the average Arcplot score of 7.0 indicates careful attention to story structure.
Within this genre, 1% of films reach scores above 8.0, suggesting that genre boundaries remain flexible. Exemplary works include Aquamarine (8.0), Dan in Real Life (8.0), and Town & Country (8.0).
Runtime Patterns
Romance films in this collection average 1 hour and 52 minutes, reflecting efficient narrative compression.
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(500) Days of Summer
2009
10
1979
10 Things I Hate About You
1999
13 Going on 30
2004
2 Days in Paris
2007
200 Cigarettes
1999
2046
2004
40 Days and 40 Nights
2002
50/50
2011
8 Seconds
1994
9 Songs
2004
A Cinderella Story
2004
A Dangerous Method
2011
A Dog's Will
2000
A Few Best Men
2011
A Good Woman
2004
A Good Year
2006
A Guy Thing
2003
A Hologram for the King
2016
A Journal for Jordan
2021
A Knight's Tale
2001
A Lot Like Love
2005
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1935
A Midsummer Night's Dream
1999
A New Leaf
1971
A Night at the Roxbury
1998
A Patch of Blue
1965
A Perfect Ending
2012
A Place in the Sun
1951
A Rainy Day in New York
2019
A Room with a View
1985
A Royal Night Out
2015
A Second Chance
2015
A Single Man
2009
A Star Is Born
1976
A Star Is Born
1954
A Walk in the Clouds
1995
A Walk to Remember
2002
A Woman Under the Influence
1974
About a Boy
2002
About Last Night
2014
About Last Night...
1986
About Time
2013
Absence of Malice
1981
Across the Universe
2007
Adam's Rib
1949
Adventureland
2009
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
After
2019
After Ever Happy
2022
After Everything
2023
After We Collided
2020
After We Fell
2021
Against the Ropes
2004
Aladdin and the King of Thieves
1996
Alex & Emma
2003
Alice
1990
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974
All I Want For Christmas
1991
All of Me
1984
All of Us Strangers
2023
All the Pretty Horses
2000
All the Right Moves
1983
Allied
2016
Along Came Polly
2004
Always
1989
Amélie
2001
America's Sweethearts
2001
American Honey
2016
American Pie
1999
American Pie 2
2001
American Wedding
2003
Amour
2012
An American in Paris
1951
An Education
2009
An Ideal Husband
1999
An Officer and a Gentleman
1982
Angel Eyes
2001
Angelique
1964
Angelique and the King
1966
Angelique: The Road To Versailles
1965
Angie
1994
Anna and the King
1999
Anna Karenina
2012
Annie Get Your Gun
1950
Annie Hall
1977
Antwone Fisher
2002
Anyone But You
2023
Aquamarine
2006
Are We There Yet?
2005
Around the World in 80 Days
1956
Arthur
1981
Arthur
2011
Arthur 2: On the Rocks
1988
Artists and Models
1955
As Good as It Gets
1997
Asteroid City
2023
Atlantic City
1980
Atonement
2007
Attraction
2017
Australia
2008
Autumn in New York
2000
Away from Her
2007
Away We Go
2009
Baby Boom
1987
Baby Boy
2001
Baby Mama
2008
Bachelorette
2012
Baggage Claim
2013
Barcelona: A Love Untold
2016
Barefoot in the Park
1967
Bareilly Ki Barfi
2017
Beastly
2011
Beautiful Creatures
2013
Beautiful Disaster
2023
Beautiful Girls
1996
Beauty and the Beast
2014
Because I Said So
2007
Becoming Jane
2007
Bedazzled
2000
Bedtime Stories
2008
Beethoven's 2nd
1993
Before Midnight
2013
Before Night Falls
2000
Before Sunrise
1995
Before Sunset
2004
Begin Again
2014
Being Julia
2004
Bend It Like Beckham
2002
Best Friends
1982
Better Off Dead...
1985
Bewitched
2005
Beyond the Lights
2014
Big Miracle
2012
Big Night
1996
Big Top Pee-wee
1988
Blast from the Past
1999
Blind Date
1987
Blue Crush
2002
Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013
Blue Story
2019
Blue Valentine
2010
Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice
1969
Bobby Deerfield
1977
Bolero
1984
Bones and All
2022
Bonjour Tristesse
1958
Book Club
2018
Boomerang
1992
Bounce
2000
Boys and Girls
2000
Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992
Bread and Tulips
2000
Breakfast at Tiffany's
1961
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Breaking and Entering
2006
Breaking the Waves
1996
Breathe
2017
Breathless
1983
Bride & Prejudice
2004
Bride Wars
2009
Brideshead Revisited
2008
Bridesmaids
2011
Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
2004
Bridget Jones's Baby
2016
Bridget Jones's Diary
2001
Brief Encounter
1945
Bright Days Ahead
2013
Bright Star
2009
Broadcast News
1987
Brokeback Mountain
2005
Broken Embraces
2009
Broken Flowers
2005
Bronco Billy
1980
Brooklyn
2015
Bros
2022
Brother Bear 2
2006
Bubble Boy
2001
Bull Durham
1988
Bulworth
1998
Burlesque
2010
Bus Stop
1956
Cabaret
1972
Cactus Flower
1969
Café Society
2016
California Suite
1978
Call Me by Your Name
2017
Can't Buy Me Love
1987
Can't Hardly Wait
1998
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
2001
Carancho
2010
Career Opportunities
1991
Carmen Jones
1954
Carnal Knowledge
1971
Carol
2015
Casablanca
1942
Cast Away
2000
Cavalcade
1933
Caveman
1981
Certified Copy
2010
Chalet Girl
2011
Challengers
2024
Charade
1963
Charlie Bartlett
2008
Charlie St. Cloud
2010
Charming
2018
Chasing Amy
1997
Chasing Liberty
2004
Chasing Papi
2003
Chennai Express
2013
Chéri
2009
Cherry Blossoms
2008
Children of a Lesser God
1986
Chinese Puzzle
2013
Chocolat
2000
Cinderella
1950
Cinderella
2012
Cinderella Man
2005
Cinema Paradiso
1988
Cleopatra
1963
Closer
2004
Clueless
1995
Cocktail
2012
Cocktail
1988
Cold Mountain
2003
Collateral Beauty
2016
Color of Night
1994
Come September
1961
Coming Home
1978
Coming Home
2014
Coming to America
1988
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
2002
Confessions of a Shopaholic
2009
Continental Divide
1981
Cooley High
1975
Corpse Bride
2005
Corrina, Corrina
1994
Costa!
2001
Country Strong
2010
Coyote Ugly
2000
Crazy Heart
2009
Crazy Rich Asians
2018
Crazy, Stupid, Love.
2011
Crazy/Beautiful
2001
Criminal Law
1989
Crimson Peak
2015
Crossroads
2002
Cruel Intentions
1999
Curly Sue
1991
Cyborg She
2008
Cyrano de Bergerac
1990
Cyrus
2010
Daddy's Little Girls
2007
Dan in Real Life
2007
Dance with Me
1998
Dangerous Beauty
1998
Date Movie
2006
Date Night
2010
Decision to Leave
2022
Definitely, Maybe
2008
Delicacy
2011
Delirious
1991
Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo
1999
Diana
2013
Diary of a Mad Black Woman
2005
Did You Hear About the Morgans?
2009
Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
2004
Disobedience
2018
Do Not Disturb
1965
Doc Hollywood
1991
Doctor Zhivago
1965
Dog Days
2018
Don Juan DeMarco
1994
Donovan's Reef
1963
Dostana
2008
Double Take
2001
Down to Earth
2001
Down with Love
2003
Downton Abbey: A New Era
2022
Dr. T & the Women
2000
Dragonfly
2002
Dream a Little Dream
1989
Drive Me Crazy
1999
Drumline
2002
Dude, Where's My Car?
2000
Dudley Do-Right
1999
Duel in the Sun
1946
Duplicity
2009
Dying Young
1991
East/West
1999
Eat Drink Man Woman
1994
Eat Pray Love
2010
Echoes of the Rainbow
2010
Edward Scissorhands
1990
El Cid
1961
Elegy
2008
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
2007
Elizabethtown
2005
Emma
1996
Emma.
2020
Emmanuelle
1974
Empire of Light
2022
Employee of the Month
2006
Enchanted
2007
Endless Love
2014
Enemies, a Love Story
1989
Enemy at the Gates
2001
Enigma
2001
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2004
Forrest Gump
1994
Frances Ha
2012
Garden State
2004
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
1953
Georgia Rule
2007
Ghost
1990
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
2009
Gigi
1958
Gigli
2003
Gilda
1946
Girl with a Pearl Earring
2003
Glitter
2001
Gloria Bell
2019
Goal!
2005
God's Own Country
2017
Going the Distance
2010
Gone with the Wind
1939
Good Deeds
2012
Good Luck Chuck
2007
Good Men, Good Women
1995
Good Will Hunting
1997
Goodbye Mr. Loser
2015
Grace of Monaco
2014
Grease
1978
Great Expectations
1998
Great Expectations
2012
Green Card
1990
Greenberg
2010
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
1984
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997
Groundhog Day
1993
Grumpier Old Men
1995
Grumpy Old Men
1993
Guess Who
2005
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1967
Guru
2007
Hackers
1995
Hairspray
2007
Hall Pass
2011
Hampstead
2017
Happy Together
1997
He Loves Me… He Loves Me Not
2002
Head Over Heels
2001
Head-On
2004
Heartbreaker
2010
Heartbreakers
2001
Heartburn
1986
Heaven Can Wait
1978
Hello, Dolly!
1969
Hello, Love, Goodbye
2019
Hello, My Name Is Doris
2015
Henry & June
1990
Her
2013
Her Blue Sky
2019
Hercules
1997
Here on Earth
2000
Hero and the Terror
1988
Hero at Large
1980
High Fidelity
2000
High School High
1996
High School Musical 3: Senior Year
2008
High Society
1956
High Spirits
1988
Highway
2014
Hit Man
2024
Hitchcock
2012
Hollywood Ending
2002
Home Again
2017
Home for the Holidays
1995
Home Fries
1998
Honey
2003
Honsla Rakh
2021
Housefull
2010
Housefull 2
2012
Housefull 3
2016
How Do You Know
2010
How Stella Got Her Groove Back
1998
How to Be Single
2016
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days
2003
How to Lose Friends & Alienate People
2008
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
How to Marry a Millionaire
1953
Howards End
1992
Hysteria
2011
I ♥ Huckabees
2004
I Am Dragon
2015
I Am Love
2010
I Capture the Castle
2003
I Don't Know How She Does It
2011
I Feel Pretty
2018
I Give It a Year
2013
I Love Trouble
1994
I Love You Phillip Morris
2010
I Love You, Man
2009
I Think I Love My Wife
2007
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
2018
I.Q.
1994
I'll See You in My Dreams
2015
If Beale Street Could Talk
2018
If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium
1969
If You Are the One
2008
If You Are the One 2
2010
In a Better World
2010
In Bed with Victoria
2016
In Good Company
2004
In Her Shoes
2005
In Love and War
1996
In the Cut
2003
In the Heights
2021
In the Land of Women
2007
In the Mood for Love
2000
Indecent Proposal
1993
Indochine
1992
Infinitely Polar Bear
2014
Innocent Blood
1992
Intersection
1994
Intimate Strangers
2004
Intolerable Cruelty
2003
Irma la Douce
1963
Life is Beautiful
1997
Little Women
2019
Mad Dog and Glory
1993
Mad Love
1995
Made of Honor
2008
Madea's Family Reunion
2006
Magic in the Moonlight
2014
Magic Mike's Last Dance
2023
Maid in Manhattan
2002
Malang
2020
Malena
2000
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again
2018
Man of the Year
2006
Man's Favorite Sport?
1964
Manhattan
1979
Marriage Story
2019
Midnight in Paris
2011
Modern Times
1936
Monsoon Wedding
2001
Monster-in-Law
2005
Monster's Ball
2001
Moonlight Mile
2002
Moonstruck
1987
Morning Glory
2010
Moscow on the Hudson
1984
Mother's Day
2016
Moulin Rouge!
2001
Move Over, Darling
1963
Mr. Deeds
2002
Mr. Destiny
1990
Mr. Woodcock
2007
Mrs. Miniver
1942
Mrs. Winterbourne
1996
Mulan: Rise of a Warrior
2009
Multiplicity
1996
Rabbit Without Ears
2007
Rabbit Without Ears 2
2009
Rachel Getting Married
2008
Raintree County
1957
Raise the Red Lantern
1991
Raising Helen
2004
Random Harvest
1942
Random Hearts
1999
Real Genius
1985
Reality Bites
1994
Rebecca
1940
Rushmore
1998
Save the Last Dance
2001
Saving Silverman
2001
Say Anything...
1989
Say It Isn't So
2001
School for Scoundrels
2006
Sea of Love
1989
Secret
2007
Secret Admirer
1985
Secretary
2002
Seems Like Old Times
1980
Send Me No Flowers
1964
Sense and Sensibility
1995
Senseless
1998
Serendipity
2001
Sex and the City 2
2010
Shadowlands
1993
Shakespeare in Love
1998
Shall We Dance?
1996
Singin' in the Rain
1952
Some Like It Hot
1959
The African Queen
1952
The Aftermath
2019
The Age of Adaline
2015
The Age of Innocence
1993
The American President
1995
The Anthem of the Heart
2015
The Apartment
1960
The Art of Racing in the Rain
2019
The Artist
2011
The Bachelor
1999
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
1947
The Back-Up Plan
2010
The Barkleys of Broadway
1949
The Beach
2000
The Beautician and the Beast
1997
The Beauty Inside
2015
The Best of Me
2014
The Best of Youth
2003
The Best Offer
2013
The Best Years of Our Lives
1946
The Big Parade
1925
The Big Sick
2017
The Blue Lagoon
1980
The Fabulous Baker Boys
1989
The Family Man
2000
The Family Stone
2005
The Fault in Our Stars
2014
The Five-Year Engagement
2012
The Fountain
2006
The Four Feathers
2002
The Four Seasons
1981
The French Dispatch
2021
The Future
2011
The Girl Next Door
2004
The Good German
2006
The Good Girl
2002
The Graduate
1967
The Grass Is Greener
1960
The Great Debaters
2007
The Great Gatsby
1974
The Great Muppet Caper
1981
The Greatest Show on Earth
1952
The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society
2018
The Guru
2002
The Handmaiden
2016
The Heartbreak Kid
1972
The Next Best Thing
2000
The Next Three Days
2010
The Notebook
2004
The Nutty Professor
1963
The Object of My Affection
1998
The Order
2003
The Other Boleyn Girl
2008
The Painted Veil
2006
The Parent Trap
1998
The Parent Trap
1961
The Phantom of the Opera
2004
The Philadelphia Experiment
1984
The Philadelphia Story
1940
The Photograph
2020
The Piano
1993
The Piano Teacher
2001
The Postman
1994
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1981
The Postman Always Rings Twice
1946
The Prince of Tides
1991
The Princess and the Frog
2009
The Princess Bride
1987
The Princess Diaries
2001
The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement
2004
The Program
1993
The Promise
2005
The Proposal
2009
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
The Quick and the Dead
1995
The Quiet American
2002
The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie
2022
The Razor's Edge
1984
The Red Shoes
1948
The Remains of the Day
1993
The Rewrite
2014
The Road to Wellville
1994
The Robe
1953
The Rose
1979
The Rules of Attraction
2002
The Russia House
1990
The Saint
1997
The Scarlet Letter
1995
The Secret in Their Eyes
2009
The Secret of Moonacre
2009
The Seven Year Itch
1955
The Shipping News
2001
The Shootist
1976
The Shop Around the Corner
1940
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
2005
The Space Between Us
2017
The Spectacular Now
2013
The Sterile Cuckoo
1969
The Story of Us
1999
The Sun Is Also a Star
2019
The Sure Thing
1985
The Sweetest Thing
2002
The Switch
2010
The Taste of Things
2023
The Terminal
2004
The Theory of Everything
2014
The Thomas Crown Affair
1999
The Thomas Crown Affair
1968
The Three Musketeers
1973
The Three Musketeers
1993
The Tiger and the Snow
2005
The Time Traveler's Wife
2009
The Tourist
2010
The Twilight Samurai
2002
The Ugly Truth
2009
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
1964
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
The Virgin Suicides
2000
The Voyeurs
2021
The Way We Were
1973
The Wedding Banquet
1993
The Wedding Date
2005
The Wedding Planner
2001
The Well Digger's Daughter
2011
The Wings of the Dove
1997
The Wolf Man
1941
The Woman in Red
1984
The Wood
1999
The World of Suzie Wong
1960
The Worst Person in the World
2021
The Wrestler
2008
The Year of Living Dangerously
1982
Then She Found Me
2007
There's Something About Mary
1998
They Came Together
2014
Think Like a Man
2012
This Means War
2012
Three of Hearts
1993
Three Thousand Years of Longing
2022
Threesome
1994
Thumbelina
1994
Tin Cup
1996
Tiny Times 2
2013
Tiny Times 3
2014
Tiny Times 4
2015
Titanic
1997
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
2018
To Be or Not to Be
1942
To Catch a Thief
1955
To Rome with Love
2012
Toilet: A Love Story
2017
Tolkien
2019
Tomcats
2001
Tootsie
1982
Top Five
2014
Torn Curtain
1966
Town & Country
2001
Trainwreck
2015
Trapeze
1956
Trapped in Paradise
1994
Tristan & Isolde
2006
Trouble with the Curve
2012
True Romance
1993
Tulip Fever
2017
Twelfth Night
1996
Twilight
2008
Two Mules for Sister Sara
1970
Under the Tuscan Sun
2003
Untamable Angelique
1967
Up in the Air
2009
Upendra
1999
Upside Down
2012
Urban Cowboy
1980
Us and Them
2018
Valentine's Day
2010
Valley Girl
1983
Valley of the Dolls
1967
Vampire in Brooklyn
1995
Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj
2006
Vertigo
1958
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2008
Victor/Victoria
1982
View from the Top
2003
Violet Evergarden: The Movie
2020
Virgin Territory
2007
Waiting to Exhale
1995
Waitress
2007
Wake Up Sid
2009
Wanderlust
2012
War and Peace
1956
Warm Bodies
2013
Water for Elephants
2011
Way Down East
1920
We Are Your Friends
2015
Wedding Crashers
2005
Wedding Daze
2006
Weddings and Other Disasters
2010
Weird Science
1985
Welcome to Mooseport
2004
Welcome to the Sticks
2008
West Side Story
1961
Wet Hot American Summer
2001
What a Girl Wants
2003
What a Way to Go!
1964
What Dreams May Come
1998
What Happens in Vegas
2008
What If
2013
What Men Want
2019
What to Expect When You're Expecting
2012
What Women Want
2000
What's Up, Doc?
1972
What's Your Number?
2011
Whatever It Takes
2000
Whatever Works
2009
When a Man Loves a Woman
1994
When Harry Met Sally...
1989
When in Rome
2010
Where the Crawdads Sing
2022
Where the Heart Is
2000
While You Were Sleeping
1995
White Christmas
1954
White Palace
1990
White Snake
2019
Why Did I Get Married Too?
2010
Wicked
2024
Wicker Park
2004
Wild Chicks in Love
2007
Wild Child
2008
Wild Orchid
1989
Wild Strawberries
1957
Wimbledon
2004
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
Windstruck
2004
Wings of Desire
1987
Winter's Tale
2014
Witness
1985
Wolf
1994
Woman on Top
2000
Wonder Wheel
2017
Working Girl
1988
Wuthering Heights
1970
Xanadu
1980
Yentl
1983
Yes Man
2008
You Again
2010
You Can't Take It with You
1938
You Hurt My Feelings
2023
You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2010
You, Me and Dupree
2006
You've Got Mail
1998
Young & Beautiful
2013
Young Woman and the Sea
2024
Yours, Mine & Ours
2005
Youth in Revolt
2009
Zack and Miri Make a Porno
2008