Hidden Gems
Underrated Romance Movies
Romance films our TML Score rates highly that never found a big audience: critically strong, commercially overlooked. Ranked by our TML Score, a transparent blend of IMDb and Metascore, and filtered to titles with modest box office.
30 Underrated Romance Films
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City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeCharles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill +2
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Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$3.6M box officeIrène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant +2
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Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$4.0M box officeIrène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant +2
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Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné·1945·DramaTML 92★ 8.3$37K box officeArletty, Jean-Louis Barrault +2
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The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeMargaret Sullavan, James Stewart +2
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The Best of Youth
Marco Tullio Giordana·2003·DramaTML 91★ 8.5$274K box officeLuigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni +2
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Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma·2019·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$3.8M box officeNoémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel +2
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The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor·1940·ComedyTML 90★ 7.9$405K box officeCary Grant, Katharine Hepburn +2
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The Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Curtiz·1938·ActionTML 90★ 7.9$4.0M box officeWilliam Keighley, Errol Flynn +2
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Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach·2019·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$2.0M box officeAdam Driver, Scarlett Johansson +2
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The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov·1957·DramaTML 87★ 8.3$18K box officeTatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov +2
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The African Queen
John Huston·1951·AdventureTML 87★ 7.7$536K box officeHumphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn +2
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Fa yeung nin wah
Kar-Wai Wong·2000·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$2.7M box officeTony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung +2
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In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai·2000·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$2.7M box officeTony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung +2
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It Happened One Night
Frank Capra·1934·ComedyTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeClark Gable, Claudette Colbert +2
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Masculine Feminine
Jean-Luc Godard·1966·DramaTML 86★ 7.4$200K box officeJean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya +2
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Omohide poro poro
Isao Takahata·1991·AnimationTML 86★ 7.6$453K box officeMiki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba +2
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Three Colors: White
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·ComedyTML 86★ 7.6$1.2M box officeZbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy +2
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La vie d'Adèle
Abdellatif Kechiche·2013·DramaTML 86★ 7.7$2.2M box officeLéa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos +2