The 31 Best Romance Films of the 2010s

Romance on screen in the 2010s meant swooning musicals, aching period dramas and teen comedies that lived in streaming queues. Some of these won Oscars; others won sleepovers.

1. 1
   Call Me by Your Name

   Luca Guadagnino's 2017 summer romance between a teenager and a visiting scholar in northern Italy.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Weekend

   Andrew Haigh's 2011 British drama about two men whose one-night stand becomes something deeper.
   654pts
3. 3
   La La Land

   Damien Chazelle's 2016 musical about a jazz pianist and an actress chasing dreams in Los Angeles.
   576pts
4. 4
   Before Midnight

   The 2013 third chapter of Richard Linklater's trilogy, catching Jesse and Celine in Greece years into their relationship.
   576pts
5. 5
   The Handmaiden

   Park Chan-wook's 2016 erotic thriller in which a con artist's maid falls for the heiress she is meant to deceive.
   576pts
6. 6
   Phantom Thread

   Paul Thomas Anderson's 2017 tale of a 1950s London dressmaker and his strong-willed muse.
   475pts
7. 7
   Crazy, Stupid, Love

   The 2011 ensemble romantic comedy in which a recently separated father gets dating lessons from a smooth bachelor.
   411pts
8. 8
   Cold War

   Pawel Pawlikowski's 2018 black-and-white romance spanning postwar Poland, Berlin and Paris.
   411pts
9. 9
   Her

   Spike Jonze's 2013 story of a lonely writer who falls in love with his computer's operating system.
   411pts
10. 10
    Brooklyn

    The 2015 drama about an Irish immigrant torn between a new love in New York and her home town.
    411pts
11. 11
    Me Before You

    The 2016 adaptation of Jojo Moyes's novel about a caregiver and the paralysed man she looks after.
    411pts
12. 12
    Like Crazy

    Drake Doremus's 2011 Sundance winner about a transatlantic couple separated by a visa violation.
    411pts
13. 13
    Moonrise Kingdom

    Wes Anderson's 2012 story of two twelve-year-olds who run away together on a New England island.
    411pts
14. 14
    Blue Is the Warmest Colour

    Abdellatif Kechiche's 2013 Palme d'Or winner charting a young woman's intense first love.
    411pts
15. 15
    Love, Simon

    The 2018 teen romantic comedy about a closeted high schooler trading emails with an anonymous classmate.
    337pts
16. 16
    The Big Sick

    Kumail Nanjiani's 2017 comedy based on his real courtship with his wife Emily V. Gordon.
    337pts
17. 17
    Easy A

    The 2010 teen comedy starring Emma Stone as a student whose invented reputation spirals out of control.
    337pts
18. 18
    The Theory of Everything

    The 2014 biopic of Stephen Hawking's relationship with his first wife, Jane.
    337pts
19. 19
    The Shape of Water

    Guillermo del Toro's 2017 Best Picture winner about a mute cleaner and an amphibian creature.
    337pts
20. 20
    The Fault in Our Stars

    The 2014 adaptation of John Green's novel about two teenagers who meet in a cancer support group.
    337pts
21. 21
    A Star Is Born

    Bradley Cooper's 2018 remake about a fading country star and the singer he helps discover, featuring Lady Gaga.
    337pts
22. 22
    To All the Boys I've Loved Before

    Netflix's 2018 teen romance in which secret love letters are mailed to their unsuspecting subjects.
    337pts
23. 23
    About Time

    Richard Curtis's 2013 film about a young man who uses time travel to win the woman he loves.
    247pts
24. 24
    Portrait of a Lady on Fire

    Celine Sciamma's 2019 period romance between a painter and the bride-to-be she is commissioned to paint.
    247pts
25. 25
    Blue Valentine

    Derek Cianfrance's 2010 portrait of a marriage told across its hopeful start and painful end.
    247pts
26. 26
    Midnight in Paris

    Woody Allen's 2011 fantasy in which a writer slips back to 1920s Paris each night at midnight.
    247pts
27. 27
    Loving

    Jeff Nichols's 2016 drama about Richard and Mildred Loving, whose marriage led to a landmark Supreme Court case.
    247pts
28. 28
    Silver Linings Playbook

    David O. Russell's 2012 comedy-drama that won Jennifer Lawrence the Oscar for Best Actress.
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29. 29
    Carol

    Todd Haynes's 2015 drama of a forbidden love affair between two women in 1950s New York.
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30. 30
    Crazy Rich Asians

    The 2018 box-office hit romantic comedy about a professor meeting her boyfriend's wealthy Singapore family.
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31. 31
    If Beale Street Could Talk

    Barry Jenkins's 2018 adaptation of James Baldwin's novel about young love tested by injustice in Harlem.
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