Forbidden romance movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant forbidden romance movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, melancholic, intense, romantic drama and tense films and TV shows about / with forbidden romance, betrayal, love affair, relationships, love, male female relationship, female nudity, forbidden love, couple relations and love and romance plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres shot in USA, South Korea, Turkey and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as forbidden romance: Innocence (2021), Your Caresses (1969), Babygirl (2024), 7:20 ONCE A WEEK (2018), Stepfather (1981), The Bride (2015), Suite Française (2014), Trespasses (2025), Adrift in Love (2025), Vasiliki (1997).
Best films
List of forbidden romance movies
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Masumiyet follows the story of Bahar, a married mother of two, whose life changes drastically after her 19-year-old daughter falls in love with a wrong man. Her daughter Ela's first love is not a college student her age, but her father's ...
Style:
tense, suspense, emotional, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, tragic love, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, innocence lost, family drama, forbidden romance, mother daughter conflict, relationships, changing lives, family problems, male female relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
istanbul turkey
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Brother and sister meet again after 15 years and fall in love with each other.
Style:
erotic drama, controversial, sensual, art house, period piece
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, sibling relationship, forbidden romance, taboo, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, shame, guilt, european, intimate, alienation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
barcelona, ibiza
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Style:
erotic drama, psychological thriller
Plot:
intern, forbidden love, ceo, submission, infidelity, lesbian daughter, cheating wife, female nudity, adultery, sex scene, forbidden romance, female protagonist ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Two strangers have an intense casual encounter but later, both will realize that what has emerged is superior to pure physics, understanding that human relationships are more complex than a simple exchange of caresses.
Style:
erotic drama, touching, emotional, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
sensuality, sex with a stranger, sex scene, hot and sexy, rough sex, desire, forbidden romance, marriage, love, insanity, friendship, infidelity ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, erotic, serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
forbidden love, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, incest, age difference, lolita, girl man relationship, stepfather, teenage girl, first love, sexual attraction, nymphet, taboo ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
france, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on the famous play "Bodas de sangre" (Blood Wedding) by Federico García Lorca, La novia tells the story of a passionate love triangle. A bride leaves her groom, no longer able to withstand the surging desires of her lover, Leonordo.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, realistic, captivating, hispanic ...
Plot:
love triangle, love affair, lovers, wedding, sex scene, escape, family feud, family relations, revenge, society, rivalry, betrayal ...
Place:
cappadocia turkey
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, Canada, Belgium, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
France, 1940. In the first days of occupation, beautiful Lucile Angellier is trapped in a stifled existence with her controlling mother-in-law as they both await news of her husband: a prisoner of war. Parisian refugees start to pour into their ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, romantic, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
world war two, forbidden love, nazi occupied france, nazi occupation, german officer, german soldier, wartime, fall in love, wartime life, war, occupied france, nazi officer ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 1940, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, germany, england ...
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Country: UK
TV show
Story:
The story is set in 1975, in a town outside Belfast. Whilst working one night behind the bar of her family pub, serving a mixed crowd including the locally stationed soldiers, Catholic schoolteacher Cushla meets Michael, an older Protestant married ...
Style:
historical drama, tense, melancholic
Plot:
trouble, forbidden romance, interfaith relationship, illicit affair, literary, small town, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, jealousy, coming of age, ira, mistress ...
Time:
70s
Place:
northern ireland, belfast
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan
TV show
Story:
Adapted from HOU Wen-yong’s novel Adrift in Love, this series weaves two contrasting tales of passion, desire, and struggle. One story explores a forbidden relationship that blurs the boundaries of morality and longing, while the other follows an ...
Style:
romantic drama, poignant, melancholic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden romance, moral ambiguity, desire, longing, passion, illicit affair, taboo, sexual tension, secrets, class differences, loneliness, second chance ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
It is based on a true story, where a young soldier and the wife of a revolutionary guy falls in love while in the background we witness political turmoils of Greece at that time.
Style:
historical drama, emotional, period piece, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
greek civil war, soldier, forbidden romance, post war, danger, tragic love, betrayal, resistance movement, repression, police sergeant, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
greece
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on a mega popular bestseller of Korea, this drama is somewhat like the drama Snowman because of the fact that the step-sister falls in love with her step-brother and vice versa. Hyuk-soo is somewhat a cliched Korean character. Good at fighting ...
Style:
romantic drama, exciting, entertaining, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
love, family drama, forbidden romance, fall in love, love affair, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loveless marriage, couples, marriage, unhappy marriage, relationships ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A world-class pianist (Seymour) becomes romantically and sexually involved with her young protege (Gartin).
Style:
romantic drama, erotic
Plot:
teacher student relationship, teacher student sex, pianist, classical music, forbidden romance, lovers, music teacher, piano teacher, small town, taboo, coming of age, love ...
Place:
vermont
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The young noble Don Monza is caught and thrown out by the nun Virginia de Leva when she catches him flirting with one of her nun sisters across the stone wall between their gardens. He hears the rumor that she'd have an affair with her trustee ...
Style:
period piece, historical drama, romantic drama, erotic drama, intense ...
Plot:
nun, convent, forbidden romance, scandal, betrayal, murder, lust, seduction, adultery, sexual repression, hypocrisy, religious conflict ...
Time:
18th century, 16th century
Place:
europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Val Xavier is a drifter in 1940's Mississippi who brings new life to an Italian immigrant woman trapped in a loveless marriage.
Style:
southern gothic, melancholic, tension, intense, atmospheric
Plot:
small town, passion, forbidden love, forbidden romance, infidelity, love triangle, character study, loneliness, sexual awakening, tragic romance, isolation, class conflict ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
mississippi
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Seo-hyun is an ordinary housewife in her late thirties with a ten year-old son and a successful architect husband. For Seo-hyun, life is a series of banal routines, but she is well provided with upper class comforts. Her sheltered life is suddenly ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, romantic
Plot:
adultery, affair, sensuality, attraction, forbidden romance, sexual awakening, marital infidelity, sexual tension, illicit affair, middle aged woman, guilt, betrayal ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman must choose loyalty to a historical Asian clan, and her non-traditional love, amidst the deaths of her dance partners being investigated by her new lover.
Style:
dark, costume drama, noir, period drama
Plot:
female protagonist, forbidden romance, family honor, asian, murder mystery, betrayal, power struggle, sexual tension, secret society, investigation, political intrigue
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
During the Cold War, a local Polish officer and a young Soviet woman wedded to a Soviet officer are drawn together by music.
Style:
romantic drama, captivating, sincere, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
cold war era, cold war, forbidden romance, love affair, military life, love interest, love story, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations, relationships ...
Time:
70s
Place:
poland, soviet union
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Feigi, 18, is a young, troubled woman who - following a failed suicide attempt - attaches her future happiness to Nathan, the 35-year-old married son of the leader of the ultra-orthodox community in which they both live. Feigi grows dangerously ...
Style:
religious drama, romantic, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, forbidden romance, in love, love interest, love affair, fall in love, star crossed lovers, couple relations, love and romance, love story, relationships, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story:
Sanna is the 21-year-old daughter of a rich landowner in southern Sweden. Her father, Bengt, makes his fortune by leasing his vast expanse of inherited land to hardworking family farmers, many of whom struggle to make ends meet. Stern and ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
disappearance, investigation, murder investigation, missing person, murder mystery, forbidden romance, family conflict, male female relationship, relationship problems, mysterious disappearance, relationships, puzzle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Saints & Sinners is a telenovela which premiered on March 14, 2007 at 8 p.m. ET/7 p.m. CT on the American television network MyNetworkTV. Twentieth Television produced this limited-run serial, based on the a 2000 TV Azteca telenovela titled La ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
deception, corruption, organized crime, murder, murder mystery, forbidden romance, family feud, murderer, greed, life is a bitch, police corruption, problem ...
Place:
miami beach
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Iceland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After engaging in an illicit affair with one of his pupils, teacher Parker Sithole spirals into an abyss of obsession that eventually turns to murder. A cinephile's passionate homage to classic film noir, Of Good Report is a serial killer ...
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
teacher, school, forbidden love, sexual tension, obsession, teacher student relationship, murder, forbidden romance, problem, love story, love affair, couples ...
Place:
africa, south africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Ömer's life turns upside down when he falls in love with Gamze, a relationship that his conservative father will never approve of. She is a middle-aged woman, who returns to her old neighborhood after her divorce. While struggling to start ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, heartfelt, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden love, single mother, family conflict, forbidden romance, family disapproval, love interest, relationship problems, love and romance, family relations, star crossed lovers, in love, love affair ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In a tailspin after her marriage collapses, Jamie falls for a helpful gentleman whose interest in her welfare hides sinister motives.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, family relations, stalker, mental illness, psychological manipulation, domestic drama, forbidden romance, obsessive love, infidelity, manipulation, male female relationship, in love ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sent from the future to look after a lonely girl, Eggy finds himself falling for her. But dating is forbidden and would risk both their fates.
Style:
touching, sweet, romantic, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, forbidden romance, travel, love affair, love and romance, youth, fall in love, love, hopes, couples, sentient robot ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
A 37-year-old teacher falls for the charms of a student 20 years younger, causing a family crisis and her brutal fall to prison.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, extramarital affair, horny wife, infidelity, sexually dissatisfied wife, cheating wife, sex scene, male nudity, forbidden romance, horny woman, adultery, female protagonist ...
Place:
quebec
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ji-seon is living with her sister and her husband after a divorce. Her sister Ji-yeong leaves for a work trip and Ji-seon is at home all alone with her brother-in-law. The two can't hide their sexual passion and they cross the line. Every time ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic drama
Plot:
sex with sister in law, infidelity, adultery, sexual tension, forbidden romance, seduction, sisters, relationships, longing, seductress, eroticism, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Set in rural Telangana, A commoner dares to fall in love with a dorasaani named Devaki. Will their love survive despite the class differences?
Style:
romantic, romantic drama, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
love, rich and poor, class conflict, forbidden love, forbidden romance, in love, love interest, rich woman, poor, male female relationship, romantic relationship, love affair ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 57 min.
TV show
Story:
Hijiri has always dreamed of becoming a teacher, and she has just started teaching a 9th grade class at Koboshi Junior High School. She is engaged to Shotaro, an elite trading company employee working in Osaka, who she has been dating since ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, romantic drama, intense ...
Plot:
teacher student relationship, forbidden love, female teacher, teacher, forbidden romance, love affair, love, love interest, older man younger woman relationship, relationships, sexual tension, longing ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Won-gi lost his wife a long time ago and is running a pension outside of the city. Then one day, Won-gi's daughter and her friend Se-yeong stays in the pension during a break from their school in Seoul. However, Won-gi finds himself attracted ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, sensual, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forbidden romance, taboo, problem, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love interest, couple relations, divorced man, love affair, couples, father and daughter ...
Place:
korea
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After her mother dies, Young-jae visits her older sister's house, who took care of herself like her, and reunites with her sister, Soon-ae. She is incredibly greedy and charming. With the provocation of Soon-ae, the two develop into a secret ...
Style:
erotic, romantic, captivating, sensual
Plot:
forbidden romance, new love, love story, love and romance, love affair, relationships, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, couples, romantic relationship, parents and children ...
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