Unconventional romance movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant unconventional romance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out romantic, touching, interesting, melancholic, clever and thought provoking films and TV shows about / with love, unconventional romance, storytelling, dialogue, love story, love and romance, life philosophy, destiny, loneliness and bittersweet plots mostly in Romance, Drama and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Germany and other countries.
unconventional romance
TOP 10 movies tagged as unconventional romance: Beauty and the Beast (2017), While You Were Sleeping (1995), Secretary (2002), The Lunchbox (2013), Silver Linings Playbook (2012), WALL·E (2008), Annie Hall (1977), Manhattan (1979), Groundhog Day (1993), Before Sunrise (1995).
Best films
List of unconventional romance movies
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A live-action adaptation of Disney's version of the classic tale of a cursed prince and a beautiful young woman who helps him break the spell.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, sweet, touching, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot:
happy ending, disney, beauty and the beast, beast, love story, magic, opposites attract, true love, prince, fantasy world, heroine, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A love story built on a misunderstanding. A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off the tracks after he's mugged. But while he's in a coma, his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. ...
Style:
romantic, sweet, light, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, love, fall in love, love triangle, love and romance, love story, holiday, loneliness, mistaken identity, hospital, new year's eve, love affair ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, new york
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94K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
bdsm, s&m, secretary, obsession, workplace romance, sexual perversion, fetish, sex scene, sexual relations, coitus, sex in office, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, feel good, melancholic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
food, love, housewife, life, unlikely relationship, cooking, relationships, happy ending, depression, unlikely friendships, honest, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After spending eight months in a mental institution, a former teacher moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, realistic, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
mental illness, love, bipolar disorder, depression, life philosophy, social misfits, supportive parent, gambling, male female friendship, football, psychology, adaptation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia, new jersey, baltimore
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1.1M
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
WALL·E is the last robot left on an Earth that has been overrun with garbage and all humans have fled to outer space. For 700 years he has continued to try and clean up the mess, but has developed some rather interesting human-like qualities. When ...
Style:
feel good, futuristic, touching, emotional, light ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, chick flick ...
Plot:
loneliness, robot, distopia, space travel, love, post apocalypse, ecology, space, happy ending, technology, society, ecological disaster ...
Time:
future, distant future
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269K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the city of New York, comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditsy Annie Hall.
Style:
philosophical, non-linear, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
relationships, love and romance, neurosis, marriage, divorce, jewish, comedian, unlikely friendships, loneliness, love story, friendship, art ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
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142K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life of a divorced television writer dating a teenage girl is further complicated when he falls in love with his best friend's mistress.
Style:
romantic, humorous, meditative, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
love triangle, love, age difference, divorce, couples, friendship, love and romance, adultery, dating, mistress, 17 year old, dachshund ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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644K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer and mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Style:
feel good, philosophical, romantic, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, kids, chick flick, teens, family outing
Plot:
time loop, existentialism, small town, time travel, time warp, life philosophy, groundhog day, love, redemption, repeated event, fall in love, hopes ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, pittsburgh
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On his way to Vienna, American Jesse meets Céline, a student returning to Paris. After long conversations forge a surprising connection between them, Jesse convinces Celine to get off the train with him in Vienna. Since his flight to the U.S. ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
chance meeting, relationships, fall in love, destiny, tourist, french, coincidence, train, love story, love, travel, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
vienna, europe, austria, paris france, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A melancholy story about the love between a woman and a man who live in the same building and one day find out that their husband and wife had an affair with each other. More and more the two meet during their daily lives as they determine that they ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, art house, visually appealing, erotic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, newspaper, love, human nature, food, art, betrayal ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1966, year 1962
Place:
hong kong, japan, china, india, shanghai ...
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140K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Holden and Banky are comic book artists. Everything is going good for them until they meet Alyssa, also a comic book artist. Holden falls for her, but his hopes are crushed when he finds out she's a lesbian.
Style:
funny, talky, touching, romantic, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
bisexuality, lesbian, twists and turns, gay, jealousy, friendship, philosophy, superhero, happy ending, lgbtq, sex, unlikely relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
New York City. Melvin Udall, a cranky, bigoted, obsessive-compulsive writer, finds his life turned upside down when neighboring gay artist Simon is hospitalized and his dog is entrusted to Melvin. In addition, Carol, the only waitress who will ...
Style:
sweet, sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, family outing, date night
Plot:
dog, friendship, mental illness, writers, neighbor, older man younger woman relationship, gay, unlikely friendships, waitress, couples, age difference, psychology ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, cuba
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183K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When record store owner Rob Gordon gets dumped by his girlfriend, Laura, because he hasn't changed since they met, he revisits his top five breakups of all time in an attempt to figure out what went wrong. As Rob seeks out his former lovers to ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, feel good, romantic, funny ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
music, musician's life, breakup, love and romance, rock, musician, rock and roll, self discovery, love story, love, workplace, relationships ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 2000s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, london
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764K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie (Audrey Tautou) accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a ...
Style:
feel good, touching, inspirational, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
loneliness, love, fall in love, life, social relations, female protagonist, love and romance, optimism, existentialism, lifestyle change, destiny, surrealism ...
Time:
year 1997, 70s, 90s, year 1974, 20th century ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, montmartre paris, quebec
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer ...
Style:
bleak, depressing, emotional, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
dog, multiple storylines, forbidden love, machismo, dog fighting, hitman, siblings relations, multiple perspectives, rottweiler, vengeance, betrayal, gangsters ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 21st century
Place:
mexico city, latin america, mexico, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beleaguered small-business owner gets a harmonium and embarks on a romantic journey with a mysterious woman.
Style:
surreal, romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
depression, true love, love, shyness, brother sister relationship, mental illness, love and romance, insanity, complex characters, love story, eccentricity, sibling relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hawaii, los angeles, california, utah, usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.
Style:
sexy, romantic, twist ending, emotional, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love story, fall in love, love triangle, unrequited love, love at first sight, suspense, love, relationships, twists and turns, flashback, track down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, france, chicago illinois
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219K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Andrew returns to his hometown for the funeral of his mother, a journey that reconnects him with past friends. The trip coincides with his decision to stop taking his powerful antidepressants. A chance meeting with Sam - a girl also suffering from ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sweet, melancholic, feel good ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
depression, coming of age, funeral, self discovery, friendship, drugs, psychiatrist, melancholy, family relations, dysfunctional family, small town, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Joel Barish, heartbroken that his girlfriend underwent a procedure to erase him from her memory, decides to do the same. However, as he watches his memories of her fade away, he realises that he still loves her, and may be too late to correct his ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, melancholic, mind bending, romantic ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
memory, surrealism, amnesia, love, existentialism, memory loss, love story, relationships, alternate reality, couples, loneliness, introspection ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style:
surreal, psychological, psychedelic, mind bending, philosophical ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
love, dreams, surrealism, dream, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, insanity, existentialism, melancholy, imagination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, mexico, france, latin america, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and ...
Style:
touching, surreal, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
true love, poet, war, against the odds, power of love, cure, woman in danger, wooing, human spirit, ambition, goodhearted, wartime ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, iraq, rome italy, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Reunited at a wedding after many years, former lovers again feel the pull of a mutual attraction neither is willing to admit. Escaping the reception for the privacy of a hotel room, the unnamed pair explore the choices of the past that led them to ...
Style:
sexy, heartbreaking, light, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
wedding, infidelity, destiny, couples, love story, lovers reunited, bridesmaid, unfulfilled love, couple relations, love and romance, introspection, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, london, usa
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237K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Belgium, Germany, Canada, France, UK, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Nemo Nobody leads an ordinary existence with his wife and 3 children; one day, he wakes up as a mortal centenarian in the year 2092.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, surreal, philosophical, mind bending ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
destiny, time, philosophy, alternate reality, surrealism, depression, butterfly effect, utopia, multiple outcomes, life changing experience, twists and turns, bittersweet ...
Time:
future, year 1975, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young actor from Texas tries to make it in New York while struggling in his relationship with a beautiful singer/songwriter.
Style:
sentimental, realistic, touching, semi serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
musician, sexuality, love affair, young lovers, youth, fall in love, couple relations, actor's life, musician's life, lifestyle, actor, living together ...
Place:
texas, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, connecticut ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size ...
Style:
touching, psychological, humorous, melancholic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
mental illness, loneliness, shyness, sex doll, introvert, delusion, small town, forbidden love, young man, doll, psychologist, psychology ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, wisconsin
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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, touching, sentimental, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
love, relationships, breakup, love story, love and romance, couples, couple relations, destiny, fall in love, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, dating ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in ...
Style:
emotional, touching, romantic, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
marriage, dysfunctional family, depression, couple relations, lust, crumbling marriage, husband wife relationship, love story, marital problem, relationships, strong sexual content, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city
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627K
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every needs. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. ...
Style:
melancholic, philosophical, futuristic, touching, clever ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
loneliness, artificial intelligence, existentialism, love, philosophy, human nature, a.i., unlikely relationship, cyberspace, divorce, psychology, unlikely couple ...
Time:
future, near future, 2030s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twists and turns, loneliness, art collector, art, art theft, deception, collector, solitude, obsession, adult virgin, mysterious character, age difference ...
Time:
18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, prague, europe, italy
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