Unfulfilled love movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant unfulfilled love movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, touching, romantic, sentimental and emotional films and TV shows about / with unfulfilled love, love and romance, unfulfillment, love, couples, love story, unrequited love, fall in love, love triangle and couple relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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unfulfilled love movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as unfulfilled love: 500 Days of Summer (2009), 3 Hearts (2014), Anna M. (2007), Unrequited (2010), The Great Gatsby (2013), The Best of Me (2014), The Perfect Teacher (2010), Becoming Jane (2007), Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004), A Short Film About Love (1988).

List of unfulfilled love movies

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500 Days of Summer (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went sour, and in doing so, Tom ...
Style: sweet, romantic, touching, independent film, offbeat ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: love, breakup, relationships, couples, love story, love and romance, couple relations, unrequited love, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, heartache, fall in love ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa
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 5.9
 3K
3 Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A twist of fate leaves a hapless accountant romantically torn between two sisters.
Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot: love triangle, brother in law sister in law relationship, unfulfilled love, wedding ceremony, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, unfulfillment, siblings relations, bittersweet, sister sister relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
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 6.7
 856
Anna M. (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Anna, a somewhat introverted woman, becomes obsessed with the orthopedic surgeon who helped with her recuperation following a car accident. Incorrectly believing the love to be reciprocated, she embarks on several attempts to try and stay in touch ...
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, obsession, mental illness, doctors and patients, doctor, hate, hopes, women, femme fatale, family relations, couples, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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 4.8
 408
Unrequited (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back ...
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: love and romance, unrequited love, kidnapping, unfulfilled love, teenage love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, youth, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
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 6.7
 77K
The Best of Me (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A pair of former high school sweethearts reunite after many years when they return to visit their small hometown.
Style: touching, romantic, sentimental, sad, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love and romance, unfulfilled love, high school sweetheart, true love, love affair, lovers reunited, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend reunion, road not taken, young love, couples ...
Time: year 2014, year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
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The Perfect Teacher (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A spoiled, selfish teenager becomes infatuated with her teacher. She befriends his daughter as a way of worming her way into the family, and sets about manipulating every aspect of his life.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: obsession, female stalker, unfulfilled love, seduction, teenage girl, teenage life, love and romance, youth, psychopath, high school, blind ambition, stalker ...
Time: 21st century
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 7.0
 65K
Becoming Jane (2007)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.
Style: romantic, touching, costume drama, period piece, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: unfulfilled love, writer's life, love, prejudice, love and romance, love story, couples, fall in love, women, biopic, social differences, society ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, victorian era, 50s, year 2007 ...
Place: england, ireland, britain, europe, london
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Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A small-town girl wins a date with a Hollywood star through a contest. When the date goes better than expected, a love triangle forms between the girl, the celebrity, and the girl's best friend.
Style: feel good, romantic, romantic comedy, teen, light ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: celebrity, love triangle, fall in love, artists and showbiz, hollywood, love and romance, actor's life, social relations, contests and competitions, rivalry, love, movie star ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: virginia, west virginia, los angeles, usa
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The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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A Short Film About Love (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: 19-year-old Tomek whiles away his lonely life by spying on his opposite neighbour Magda through binoculars. She's an artist in her mid-thirties, and appears to have everything - not least a constant stream of men at her beck and call. But when ...
Style: touching, enigmatic, heartbreaking, melancholic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: voyeurism, unfulfilled love, passion, milf, loneliness, stalking, destructive relationship, passionate interest, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, relationships, dialogue ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland, europe
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Someone I Loved (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Belgium, Hong Kong
Duration: 113 min.
Story: One night, Pierre decides to reveal his painful secret to his daughter-in-law, who's just been abandoned by her husband. Pierre's secret is about his secret love to Mathilde, the woman he left to instead follow an easier path in life.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, love affair, couples, love, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, children, breakup, sexual content, nudity ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, montreal, hong kong
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 6.8
 8K
Onegin (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the opulent St. Petersburg of the Empire period, Eugene Onegin is a jaded but dashing aristocrat - a man often lacking in empathy, who suffers from restlessness, melancholy and, finally, regret. Through his best friend Lensky, Onegin is ...
Style: atmospheric, period piece, romantic, costume drama, romantic drama ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, forbidden love, tragic love, marriage, unrequited love, book, obsession, unfulfillment, love and romance, couple relations, poetry, inheritance ...
Time: 19th century, 1820s, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
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 4.7
 13K
Boxing Helena (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot ...
Style: erotic, disturbing, psychological, sexual, surreal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, crimes of passion, obsessive love, amputation, unfulfilled love, captivity, danger, estate, confined, power relations, unrequited love, sexual dysfunction ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century
Place: usa, georgia, atlanta georgia
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 7.0
 165K
One Day (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A romantic comedy centered on Dexter and Emma, who first meet during their graduation in 1988 and proceed to keep in touch regularly. The film follows what they do on July 15 annually, usually doing something together.
Style: sentimental, romantic, sad, emotional, touching ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, best friends in love, friendship, male female friendship, couples, ambition, opposites attract, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, relationships, divorce ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: iran, scotland, paris france, london
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 6.8
 2K
Scum's Wish (2017)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Seventeen-year-old Mugi Awaya and Hanabi Yasuraoka appear to be the ideal couple. They are both pretty popular, and they seem to suit each other well. However, outsiders don't know of the secret they share. Both Mugi and Hanabi have hopeless ...
Style: anime, captivating, manga, shoujo, super sentai ...
Plot: secret love, intimacy, forbidden love, love triangle, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, unfulfilled love, in love, unrequited love, impossible love, love affair, teenage love ...
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 7.1
 4K
Playful Kiss (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
TV show
Story: Playful Kiss is a 2010 South Korean romantic-comedy television series, starring Jung So-min and Kim Hyun-joong. It aired on MBC from September 1 to October 21, 2010 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 21:55 for 16 episodes. It is based on the Japanese ...
Style: feel good, light, semi serious, dorama, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: teenage love, unlikely couple, first love, school, teenage life, unfulfilled love, love and romance, japanese teenager, opposites attract, fall in love, brother brother relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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The Forsyte Saga (2002)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 276 min.
TV show
Story: In 2002, the first two books and the first interlude of John Galsworthy's trilogy The Forsyte Saga were adapted by Granada Television for the ITV network. Additional funding for this production was provided by American PBS station WGBH, the ...
Style: period piece, family saga, realistic, costume drama, serious ...
Plot: high society, love affair, society, love and romance, forbidden love, family relations, couple relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, rich and poor, power relations, victorian england ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1920s, 20th century, 1880s ...
Place: england, britain, europe, london
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Wuthering Heights (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 142 min.
TV show
Story: Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.
Style: emotional, touching, serious, gothic, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: obsession, unfulfilled love, love affair, forbidden love, estate, love triangle, social differences, revenge, society, punishment, fall in love, corporal punishment ...
Time: 19th century, 18th century, victorian era, georgian era, regency period
Place: england, europe
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 6.2
 108K
Paper Towns (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life-dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge-he ...
Style: teen, exciting, road movie, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: high school, friendship, teenager, adolescence, youth, teenage love, teenage girl, travel, love, road trip, unrequited love, teenage boy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, peru, florida, orlando florida
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)
Genre: Short, Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Dr. Horrible, an aspiring supervillain with his own video blog, is attempting to join the prestigious Evil League of Evil (led by the legendary "thoroughbred of sin", Bad Horse), but his plans are usually foiled by the egotistical ...
Style: humorous, witty, light, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: teens
Plot: mad scientist, unrequited love, villain, unfulfilled love, imaginary, life philosophy, creativity, music, love triangle, rivalry, danger, superhero ...
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 7.7
 97K
Flipped (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Juli meets Bryce in the second grade, she knows it's true love. After spending six years trying to convince Bryce the same, she's ready to give up - until he starts to reconsider.
Style: touching, sweet, feel good, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, date night ...
Plot: first love, fall in love, childhood, love and romance, young love, adolescence, teen romance, childhood sweetheart, school, teenage love, neighbor, unrequited love ...
Time: 60s, 2010s, 1950s, year 1957, year 1963 ...
Place: usa, michigan
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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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 7.5
 47K
Devdas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Devdas is sent away by his father so he can improve himself but upon his return his father still doesn’t welcome him back. Devdas and Paro are in love but Paro is a lower caste and is set to be married to an older widower. Devdas is devastated ...
Style: touching, emotional, weeping, serious, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, love triangle, alcoholic, forbidden love, tragic love, prostitution, unrequited love, prostitute, drunkenness, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, hindu, death of protagonist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: india, london, kolkata, europe, asia ...
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The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall (2011)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A disfigured musical genius, hidden away in the Paris Opera House, terrorises the opera company for the unwitting benefit of a young protégée whom he trains and loves. The 25th anniversary of the first public performance of Phantom of the Opera ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspense, gothic horror ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: unfulfilled love, theater, obsession, disfigurement, destructive relationship, opera singer, singer, musician, tragic hero, love and romance, performer's life, lifestyle ...
Time: 19th century, 1910s, year 1919, 1870s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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The Barber of Siberia (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia, France, Italy, Czech Republic
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Douglas is a foreign entrepreneur, who ventures to Russia in 1885 with dreams of selling a new, experimental steam-driven timber harvester in the wilds of Siberia. Jane is his assistant. On her travels, she meets two men who would change her life ...
Style: romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, harsh ...
Audience: date night
Plot: life, imperial russia, love story, destiny, exile, unfulfilled love, soldier, love affair, love triangle, love and romance, self sacrifice, jealousy ...
Time: 18th century, 19th century, 1800s
Place: soviet union, russia, siberia, moscow russia
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 5.4
 4K
Ceremony (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sam Davis convinces his former best friend to spend a weekend with him to rekindle their friendship at an elegant beachside estate owned by a famous documentary filmmaker. However, it soon becomes clear that Sam is secretly infatuated with his ex, ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, feel good, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, wedding, couple relations, buddies, lifestyle, unfulfillment, thirtysomething life, couples, adolescence vs adulthood, love triangle, wooing, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening ...
Style: sentimental, visual, colorful, romantic, lyrical ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love, love triangle, unfulfilled love, young lovers, marriage, separation, teenage girl, pregnancy, relationships, first love, love and romance, couple relations ...
Time: 1950s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957 ...
Place: france, algeria, normandy, europe
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The Story of Adele H (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Adèle Hugo, daughter of renowned French writer Victor Hugo, falls in love with British soldier Albert Pinson while living in exile off the coast of England. Though he spurns her affections, she follows him to Nova Scotia and takes on the alias of ...
Style: sentimental, realistic, serious, art house, disturbing ...
Plot: unfulfilled love, love, lieutenant, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, downfall, unrequited love, women, stalking, bookstore, mental disorder, biopic ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, year 1975, 1860s, ancient times ...
Place: france, nova scotia, canada, canada, nova scotia, europe ...
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The Perfect Sleep (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a ...
Style: neo noir, contemplative, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: unfulfilled love, hitman, woman in danger, heroes, rivalry, love and romance, gangster, vengeance, murder, chess, martial arts, mexican standoff ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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