Romance

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The World Unseen

£2.50

Sweeping romantic drama about two Indian women who fall for each other in the hostile environment of apartheid South Africa.

Drama
2009
90 mins
Shamim Sarif

Far from the Madding Crowd

£3.50

Terence Stamp and Julie Christie star in the classic adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tale of tragedy and passion.

Period drama
1968
165 mins
John Schlesinger

Dead Lover

£4.50

A grief-stricken gravedigger resorts to freakish means to bring her dead lover back in Grace Glowicki's gruesome Canadian horror-comedy.

Comedy
Romance
2025
84 mins
Grace Glowicki

Anaïs in Love

£3.50

In this spirited romantic comedy, the footloose and fancy-free Anaïs (Anaïs Demoustier, The New Girlfriend) skips from one lover to the next while trying to find some direction in her life.

Drama
2020
98 mins
Charline Bourgeois-Tacquet

God's Own Country

£3.50

A troubled young sheep farmer falls for a hired hand in this stunning debut from Francis Lee.

Drama
2017
105 mins
Francis Lee

Femme

£3.50

The lines of seduction, revenge and power are blurred in this tense and stylish thriller about desire and self-loathing, starring Nathan Stewart-Jarrett and George MacKay.

Thriller
2023
99 mins

Romeo and Juliet

£3.50

Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall are the star-crossed lovers in the ravishingly filmed 1954 adaptation.

Drama
Romance
1954
145 mins
Renato Castellani

Touched with Fire

£3.50

Two young poets with bipolar begin a highly passionate, volatile relationship that threatens both their futures.

Drama
Romance
2015
106 mins
Paul Dalio

Unicorns

£3.50

Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd have created a moving romance between an Essex mechanic and a South Asian drag queen.

Drama
Romance
2023
120 mins
Sally El Hosaini and James Krishna Floyd

The Lovers & the Despot

£3.50

Discover one of cinema’s strangest stories: a film director and his star are kidnapped by Kim Jong-il to make movies in the world’s weirdest state.

Documentary
Thriller
2016
98 mins
Ross Adam and Rob Cannan

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

£3.50

Maggie Smith is astonishing in one of her greatest roles as a spinster who falls for Bob Hoskins’ brash businessman.

Drama
1989
116 mins
Jack Clayton

Golden Delicious

£3.50

An Asian Canadian teenager grapples with his identity when he falls for the boy next door in this sweet rites-of-passage drama.

Romance
Sport
2022
120 mins
Jason Karman

The Lost Boys

£3.50

Two young men find love in a hopeless place – a youth correctional facility – in Zeno Graton’s powerful and politically resonant feature debut.

Drama
2022
83 mins

The Blue Caftan

£3.50

A married tailor falls for his younger apprentice in Maryam Touzani’s richly textured and sweepingly beautiful exploration of love, desire and tradition.

Drama
2022
123 mins
Maryam Touzani

Return to Dust

£3.50

Banned in China shortly after its release, Li Ruijun’s Golden Bear-nominated film is a profound and tender love story between two outcasts.

Romance
2022
134 mins
Li Ruijun

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

£3.50

When Lisa and Georgi fall in love their future is threatened by the Evil Eye, which unaccountably changes their appearance overnight in Alexandre Koberidze’s work of cinematic magic and 2021 FIPRESCI winner at Berlin.

Drama
2021
151 mins
Alexandre Koberidze

Paris, 13th District

£3.50

Jacques Audiard ventures into new territory with a vibrant take on love and Paris, as four characters cross amorous paths in the modern city.

Comedy
Romance
2021
105 mins
Jacques Audiard

Summerland

£3.50

Gemma Arterton stars in acclaimed theatre director Jessica Swale’s moving Second World War drama, as a woman rediscovering her ability to love.

Drama
Romance
2020
100 mins
Jessica Swale

Both Sides of the Blade

£3.50

Winner of the Silver Bear for Best Director at Berlin, Claire Denis pairs Juliette Binoche with Vincent Lindon as long-term lovers whose domestic bliss is ripped apart when a figure from their past returns.

Drama
2021
117 mins
Claire Denis

Tove

£3.50

A lyrical and romantic biopic of the beloved creator of the Moomins featuring an incredible central performance by Alma Pöysti.

Drama
Biopic
2020
103 mins
Zaida Bergroth

First Love

£3.50

A terminally-ill boxer, a runaway call girl, a double-crossing drugs heist and a gang war; Takashi Miike doesn’t do things by halves.

Comedy
Crime
2019
108 mins
Takashi Miike

Sublime

£3.50

A pitch-perfect drama of two adolescent rockers who share a love of making music, but whose passions and hormones collide.

Drama
2022
100 mins
Mariano Biasin

Mothering Sunday

£3.50

In this beautiful adaptation of Graham Swift’s novel, starring Josh O’Connor and Odessa Young, a writer has a creative awakening steeped in books, love and loss.

Drama
2021
104 mins
Eva Husson

Love Lies Bleeding

£3.50

Rose Glass’s gripping and gory follow-up to Saint Maud finds a lesbian couple drawn into a web of violence in 1980s small-town New Mexico.

Thriller
Romance
2023
104 mins
Rose Glass

The Big Sick

£3.50

The hilarious, breakout indie comedy about a Pakistan-born comedian and his culture-clash relationship with an American grad student.

Comedy
Romance
2017
120 mins
Michael Showalter

Carol

£3.50

Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara illuminate Todd Haynes’ intoxicating adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s beloved novel.

Drama
2015
119 mins
Todd Haynes

Brooklyn

£3.50

Saoirse Ronan shines as a woman who journeys from post-war small-town Ireland to New York, in Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Colm Tóibín’s best-selling novel.

Romance
Drama
2015
112 mins
John Crowley

The Girl King

£3.50

Lush retelling of the story of lesbian monarch Queen Christina of Sweden, combining period drama with a deeply personal love story.

Historical drama
Biopic
2015
106 mins
Mika Kaurismäki

Aviva

£3.50

Incorporating expressive and exultant dance sequences, Aviva is a restless modern love story that explores the complexities of gender dynamics.

Romance
2020
116 mins
Boaz Yakin

Everlasting Love

£3.50

A thrilling and disturbing exploration of the perils of illicit sexual encounters, beginning when a teacher initiates a tryst with one of his pupils.

Drama
2014
69 mins
Marçal Forés

Stories of Our Lives

£3.50

Five stories of forbidden desire, courageously collected to tell the hidden truths of LGBT life in Kenya.

Documentary
2014
61 mins
Jim Chuchu

The Raging Moon

£3.50

Sensitive and ground-breaking romance between couple who are both wheelchair users, played by Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman.

Drama
1971
112 mins
Bryan Forbes

Spring

£3.50

An American tourist in Italy falls for a stunning local woman with a dangerous secret, in this startling horror-romance.

Horror
Science Fiction
2015
110 mins
Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson

Another Sky

£3.50

Two cultures collide in a beautifully photographed love story - an ode to Morocco, its music, its people and way of life.

Romance
1955
86 mins
Gavin Lambert

Monsters

£3.50

Gareth Edwards reimagined the monster movie with his highly impressive DIY sci-fi, in which an indie romance blossoms amid the trailing tentacles of an alien invasion.

Science Fiction
Thriller
2010
94 mins
Gareth Edwards

Ammonite

£3.50

Francis Lee follows up God’s Own Country with a film that is every bit as immersive, tactile and emotionally powerful, aided by the devastatingly good Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan.

Biopic
Romance
2021
118 mins
Francis Lee

Goodbye First Love

£3.50

The pangs and pains of young love are artfully and respectfully rendered in this subtle and sensitive drama from Mia Hansen-Løve (Eden).

Drama
Romance
2011
106 mins
Mia Hansen-Løve

The Invisible Woman

£3.50

Ralph Fiennes directs and stars in this adaptation of Claire Tomalin’s book about the long-standing affair between Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan.

Biopic
Historical drama
2014
111 mins
Ralph Fiennes

Blue is the Warmest Colour

£3.50

The epic, passionate and strikingly naturalistic Palme d'Or-winning romance.

Romance
2013
180 mins
Abdel Kechiche

Something Must Break

£3.50

A striking 21st-century love story about the passionate relationship between a transgendered teen and a straight man.

Drama
2014
85 mins
Ester Martin Bergsmark

Ballywalter

£3.50

Seána Kerslake is superb as caustic cab driver, Eileen, who makes an unlikely connection with regular passenger and local comedian, Shane (Patrick Kielty), in Prasanna Puwanarajah’s charming debut.

Drama
Comedy
2020
90 mins
Prasanna Puwanarajah

Holding the Man

£3.50

A sweepingly romantic adaptation of Timothy Conigrave’s best-selling memoir, an impassioned love letter to his partner, John Caleo.

Biopic
Drama
2015
128 mins
Neil Armfield

The Light between Oceans

£3.50

Michael Fassbender and Alicia Vikander star in Derek Cianfrance’s sweeping romance about a lighthouse keeper, his wife, and the baby they rescue from a drifting boat.

Drama
2016
132 mins
Derek Cianfrance

Still the Water

£3.50

Naomi Kawase’s visually ravishing, beautifully composed film tells the story of two youths growing up and falling in love on a Japanese island.

Romance
Drama
2014
119 mins
Naomi Kawase

Dance Pretty Lady

£2.50

Passion, tights and tutus are front and centre in this touching tale of a ballerina being romanced by a sculptor in Edwardian London.

Drama
Romance
1931
63 mins
Anthony Asquith

The Low Down

£3.50

Aidan Gillen plays an aimless twenty-something who refuses to grow up, even after he starts dating a responsible estate agent, in Jamie Thraves’ slacker romance.

Comedy
2001
96 mins
Jamie Thraves

Bride & Prejudice

£2.50

Gurinder Chadha’s Bollywood retelling of Austen’s classic romance is an all-round joy, adding colour and song to Austen’s evergreen wit.

Musical
2004
107 mins
Gurinder Chadha

Man Up

£3.50

Simon Pegg’s date is hijacked by Lake Bell in this effervescent urban comedy, a fresh twist on the British rom-com.

Romance
Comedy
2015
88 mins
Ben Palmer

Submarine

£3.50

Richard Ayoade’s sweet and quirky directorial debut about a Swansea teen’s travails with his distant girlfriend and warring parents.

Comedy
Drama
2011
97 mins
Richard Ayoade

Boy Meets Boy

£3.50

Two young men fall for each other over the course of a single day in this disarmingly tender debut from director Daniel Sánchez López.

Drama
2021
70 mins
Daniel Sánchez López

If Beale Street Could Talk

£3.50

Barry Jenkins follows his Oscar®-winning Moonlight with an audacious adaptation of James Baldwin’s account of love, injustice and racism in America.

Drama
Romance
2018
119 mins
Barry Jenkins

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

£3.50

Two London office workers find love on a Yemeni Sheikh's ambitious fishing scheme. Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt star.

Comedy
2012
111 mins
Lasse Hallström

Orlando

£3.50

Tilda Swinton stars in Sally Potter's dazzling interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.

Fantasy
Romance
1993
93 mins
Sally Potter

And Then We Danced

£3.50

Merab’s world is turned upside down by the arrival of a new dancer in this impassioned Cannes-nominated love story.

Drama
2019
113 mins
Levan Akin

The Strong Ones

£3.50

A quiet, tender romance blossoms in this story of love and courage between two men in search of freedom.

Drama
Romance
2019
99 mins
Omar Zúñiga Hidalgo

Love Is Strange

£3.50

Ira Sachs’s refined Manhattan-set drama sees Alfred Molina’s Ben and John Lithgow’s George in the latter days of a tender, loving 39-year relationship.

Drama
Comedy
2014
95 mins
Ira Sachs

I Can't Think Straight

£2.50

The story of an affair between a Palestinian woman and her British Indian friend, from the same team behind The World Unseen.

Drama
Romance
2009
79 mins
Shamim Sarif

Babyteeth

£3.50

Seriously ill Milla (Eliza Scanlen) clashes with her parents, who disapprove when she brings home her sketchy new boyfriend Toby, in this tragicomic debut from Shannon Murphy.

Drama
2019
118 mins
Shannon Murphy

Sightseers

£3.50

Young lovers Chris and Tina turn their first holiday together into a rural killing spree in Ben Wheatley's priceless black comedy.

Comedy
Drama
2012
88 mins
Ben Wheatley

On Approval

£3.50

Splendid lead performances and a well-crafted, witty script make this adaptation of the Frederick Lonsdale play a delight.

Comedy
1944
79 mins

A United Kingdom

£3.50

Amma Assante (Belle) directs this impassioned drama starring David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike depicting an interracial romance that changed the world.

Drama
2016
111 mins
Amma Asante

Only Lovers Left Alive

£3.50

Tom Hiddleston and Tilda Swinton star as ageless, blood-drinking lovers in Jim Jarmusch’s clever, funny and sexy vampire tale.

Romance
Fantasy
2014
123 mins
Jim Jarmusch

Spring Meeting

£3.50

A penniless woman’s attempts at matchmaking her way to riches go awry when her son falls for the wrong daughter of a nobleman.

Comedy
1941
94 mins
Walter C. Mycroft and Norman Lee

Trishna

£3.50

Tragedy befalls a young Indian woman when she falls in love with a rich British man in Michael Winterbottom's sharp Thomas Hardy update.

Drama
2012
114 mins
Michael Winterbottom

The Chambermaid Lynn

£3.50

An obsessive-compulsive hotel cleaner (Vicky Krieps) who harbours a fetishistic fascination with her hotel's guests meets an enigmatic dominatrix who changes her world.

2014
90 mins
Ingo Haeb

My Favourite Cake

£3.50

Life begins at 70 for Mahin, who decides to shake her life up in this charming, quietly subversive tale from Iran.

Romance
2024
97 mins
Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha

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American Translation

A sexually ambiguous Frenchman tours his native countryside with his naive American lover in pursuit of the ultimate thrill.

Drama
2010
115 mins
Pascal Ascandes Arnold and Jean-Marc Barr

A Romance of Seville

£3.50

This florid Iberian romance centres on the daring exploits of Ramon as he takes on a group of bandits to win the admiration of true love Pepita, and escape his stultifying arranged marriage.

Romance
1931
61 mins
Norman Walker

Black

£3.50

Star-crossed lovers from rival street gangs conduct an illicit affair in this pulsating urban romance.

Drama
2015
90 mins
Bilall Fallah and Adil El Arbi

The Night Has Eyes

£3.50

James Mason stars in this gothic tale of dangerous desire set on the Yorkshire Moors.

Horror
Melodrama
1942
79 mins
Leslie Arliss

One Love

£2.50

Rick Elgood and the legendary Don Letts direct this reggae romance about a rasta musician whose affair with a gospel-singing preacher’s daughter causes a stir in Kingston.

Romance
2005
96 mins
Rick Elgood and Don Letts

Lie with Me

£3.50

Olivier Peyon’s captivating drama finds an author experiencing powerful emotions as he looks back to his first, youthful love affair.

Drama
2022
98 mins
Olivier Peyon

Wuthering Heights

£3.50

Andrea Arnold's bold re-imagining of the Emily Brontë classic.

Drama
Romance
2011
129 mins
Andrea Arnold

The Nature of Love

£3.50

Sharp and sexy comedy that offers a fresh take on desire and fidelity in the 21st century.

Romance
Drama
2023
112 mins
Monia Chokri

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The World Unseen

Far from the Madding Crowd

Dead Lover

Anaïs in Love

God's Own Country

Femme

Romeo and Juliet

Touched with Fire

Unicorns

The Lovers & the Despot

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

Golden Delicious

The Lost Boys

The Blue Caftan

Return to Dust

What Do We See When We Look at the Sky?

Paris, 13th District

Summerland

Both Sides of the Blade

Tove

First Love

Sublime

Mothering Sunday

Love Lies Bleeding

The Big Sick

Carol

Brooklyn

The Girl King

Aviva

Everlasting Love

Stories of Our Lives

The Raging Moon

Spring

Another Sky

Monsters

Ammonite

Goodbye First Love

The Invisible Woman

Blue is the Warmest Colour

Something Must Break

Ballywalter

Holding the Man

The Light between Oceans

Still the Water

Dance Pretty Lady

The Low Down

Bride & Prejudice

Man Up

Submarine

Boy Meets Boy

If Beale Street Could Talk

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Orlando

And Then We Danced

The Strong Ones

Love Is Strange

I Can't Think Straight

Babyteeth

Sightseers

On Approval

A United Kingdom

Only Lovers Left Alive

Spring Meeting

Trishna

The Chambermaid Lynn

My Favourite Cake

American Translation

A Romance of Seville

Black

The Night Has Eyes

One Love

Lie with Me

Wuthering Heights

The Nature of Love

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