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
- 1
City Lights
Charles Chaplin·1931·ComedyTML 95★ 8.5$19K box officeStarring
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers
- 2
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz·1942·DramaTML 95★ 8.5$1.0M box officeStarring
Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
- 3
Vertigo
Alfred Hitchcock·1958·MysteryTML 94★ 8.3$3.2M box officeStarring
James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes, Tom Helmore
- 4
Three Colors: Red
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$3.6M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 5
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·DramaTML 93★ 8.1$4.0M box officeStarring
Irène Jacob, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Frédérique Feder, Jean-Pierre Lorit
- 6
Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné·1945·DramaTML 92★ 8.3$37K box officeStarring
Arletty, Jean-Louis Barrault, Pierre Brasseur, Pierre Renoir
- 7
The Shop Around the Corner
Ernst Lubitsch·1940·ComedyTML 91★ 8.1$203K box officeStarring
Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut
- 8
The Best of Youth
Marco Tullio Giordana·2003·DramaTML 91★ 8.5$274K box officeStarring
Luigi Lo Cascio, Alessio Boni, Jasmine Trinca, Adriana Asti
- 9
Portrait de la jeune fille en feu
Céline Sciamma·2019·DramaTML 91★ 8.1$3.8M box officeStarring
Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami, Valeria Golino
- 10
The Philadelphia Story
George Cukor·1940·ComedyTML 90★ 7.9$405K box officeStarring
Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey
- 11
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Michael Curtiz·1938·ActionTML 90★ 7.9$4.0M box officeStarring
William Keighley, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
- 12
Jules and Jim
François Truffaut·1962·DramaTML 89★ 7.7$1K box officeStarring
Jeanne Moreau, Oskar Werner, Henri Serre, Vanna Urbino
- 13
Marriage Story
Noah Baumbach·2019·ComedyTML 89★ 7.9$2.0M box officeStarring
Adam Driver, Scarlett Johansson, Julia Greer, Azhy Robertson
- 14
Days of Heaven
Terrence Malick·1978·DramaTML 88★ 7.8$3.4M box officeStarring
Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz
- 15
The Cranes Are Flying
Mikhail Kalatozov·1957·DramaTML 87★ 8.3$18K box officeStarring
Tatyana Samoylova, Aleksey Batalov, Vasiliy Merkurev, Aleksandr Shvorin
- 16
Premam
Alphonse Puthren·2015·ComedyTML 87★ 8.3$178K box officeStarring
Nivin Pauly, Sai Pallavi, Madonna Sebastian, S.V. Krishna Shankar
- 17
The African Queen
John Huston·1951·AdventureTML 87★ 7.7$536K box officeStarring
Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull
- 18
The Handmaiden
Park Chan-wook·2016·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$2.0M box officeStarring
Kim Min-hee, Ha Jung-woo, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-ri
- 19
Fa yeung nin wah
Kar-Wai Wong·2000·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$2.7M box officeStarring
Tony Chiu-Wai Leung, Maggie Cheung, Ping Lam Siu, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
- 20
In the Mood for Love
Wong Kar-Wai·2000·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$2.7M box officeStarring
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Maggie Cheung, Siu Ping-Lam, Tung Cho 'Joe' Cheung
- 21
It Happened One Night
Frank Capra·1934·ComedyTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeStarring
Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
- 22
Rebecca
Alfred Hitchcock·1940·DramaTML 87★ 8.1$4.4M box officeStarring
Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
- 23
Days of Being Wild
Wong Kar-Wai·1990·CrimeTML 86★ 7.4$146K box officeStarring
Leslie Cheung, Maggie Cheung, Andy Lau, Carina Lau
- 24
Masculine Feminine
Jean-Luc Godard·1966·DramaTML 86★ 7.4$200K box officeStarring
Jean-Pierre Léaud, Chantal Goya, Marlène Jobert, Michel Debord
- 25
Omohide poro poro
Isao Takahata·1991·AnimationTML 86★ 7.6$453K box officeStarring
Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Izuka
- 26
Only Yesterday
Isao Takahata·1991·AnimationTML 86★ 7.6$453K box officeStarring
Miki Imai, Toshirô Yanagiba, Yoko Honna, Mayumi Izuka
- 27
Sherlock Jr.
Buster Keaton·1924·ActionTML 86★ 8.2$977K box officeStarring
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly
- 28
Three Colors: White
Krzysztof Kieslowski·1994·ComedyTML 86★ 7.6$1.2M box officeStarring
Zbigniew Zamachowski, Julie Delpy, Janusz Gajos, Jerzy Stuhr
- 29
Ah-ga-ssi
Chan-wook Park·2016·DramaTML 86★ 8.1$2.0M box officeStarring
Kim Min-hee, Jung-woo Ha, Cho Jin-woong, Moon So-Ri
- 30
La vie d'Adèle
Abdellatif Kechiche·2013·DramaTML 86★ 7.7$2.2M box officeStarring
Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos, Salim Kechiouche, Aurélien Recoing