Unrequited love movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant unrequited love movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, sexy, touching, romantic, serious and crying films and TV shows about / with unrequited love, kiss, love and romance, love, teenager, youth, friendship, obsession, relationships and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, Italy, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as unrequited love: 500 Days of Summer (2009), Flipped (2010), The Duchess of Langeais (2007), Two Friends (2015), When We First Met (2018), Fall in Love at First Kiss (2019), Palm Trees in the Snow (2015), From the Land of the Moon (2016), Besieged (1998), Unrequited (2010).
Best films
New films
| Whenever I'm Alone with You (2025) | 5.9 | |
| #Single (2025) | 6.2 | |
| Saaraa (2025) | 9.3 | |
| Denied Love (2025) | 7.8 | |
| Antaratma (2025) | 7.0 |
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:
touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot:
breakup, love, relationships, couples, love story, unrequited love, love and romance, couple relations, manic pixie dream girl, unfulfilled love, life philosophy, heartache ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa
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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, feel good, sweet, romantic, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, date night ...
Plot:
first love, fall in love, childhood, childhood sweetheart, teenage love, love and romance, adolescence, teen romance, young love, love story, teenage life, love ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, year 1957, 2010s, 1950s ...
Place:
usa, michigan
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
In Majorca, in 1823, a French general, Armand de Montriveau, overhears a cloistered nun singing in a chapel; he insists on speaking to her. She is Antoinette, for five years he has searched for her. Flash back to their meeting in Paris, he recently ...
Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
obsession, passionate love, high society, nun, valet, kidnapping, love and romance, couple relations, social differences, unfulfilled love, love affair, tragic love ...
Time:
19th century, year 2007, victorian era, 1810s, 1820s
Place:
paris france, africa, france, europe, spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mona, a prisoner on work release, meets Clément, a shy actor. Desperate to impress Mona, Clément recruits his extroverted friend, Abel, to help. When Mona becomes more interested in Abel, it sets off a conflict between the two friends. Meanwhile, ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
unrequited love, end of friendship, love triangle, bare breasts, betrayal, friendship between men, obsession, dancing, hotel, female nudity, nudity, lust ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Noah spends the perfect first night with the girl of his dreams Avery but gets relegated to the friend zone. He spends the next three years wondering what went wrong - until he gets the unexpected chance to travel back in time and alter that night, ...
Style:
rom com, sentimental, captivating, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night
Plot:
time travel, time loop, unrequited love, destiny, fate, best friends in love, soul mate, teenager, time, friends to lovers, groundhog day, dating ...
Time:
year 2014, year 2017
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After an earthquake destroys Xiang Qin's house, she and her father move in with the family of her father's college buddy. To her surprise, her new kind and amicable aunt and uncle are the parents of her cold and distant schoolmate, Jiang ...
Style:
dorama, romantic, touching, sweet, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
unrequited love, love and romance, love, first love, romanticism, arrogance, broken heart, teenage protagonist, first date, living together, couple relations, male female relationship ...
Place:
asia, china
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Kilian is a young man who has never left the mountains of Huesca which saw him grow up. In 1953 he will travel to the exotic island of Fernando Poo to work in a cacao field alongside his father and his brother. During 20 years in this island he will ...
Style:
sexy, touching, multicultural, period piece, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
interracial couple, interracial relations, plantation, colonialism, unrequited love, interracial, family secret, forbidden love, black man white woman sex, racism, colony, ancestry ...
Time:
60s, 1950s, 50s, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
spain, africa, iberian peninsula, west africa
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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, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Canada, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Milena Agus' eponymous novel set after WWII, "Mal de Pierres" ("Mal di Pietre") spans 20 years, following the destiny of a passionate, free-spirited woman who is in a loveless marriage and falls for another ...
Style:
sexy, sexual, erotic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
unrequited love, twists and turns, female protagonist, pain, mountain, war veteran, delusional woman, doctor, marriage, baby, soldier, passionate love ...
Time:
post world war two, 50s, future, 1950s
Place:
provence, south of france, somalia, france, alps
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an African dictator jails her husband, Shandurai goes into exile in Italy, studying medicine and keeping house for Mr. Kinsky, an eccentric English pianist and composer. She lives in one room of his Roman palazzo. He besieges her with flowers, ...
Style:
erotic, emotional, melancholic, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
white male black female relationship, interracial relations, unrequited love, politics, jail, sensuality, pianist, fall in love, social differences, opposites attract, society, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
africa, italy, rome italy, europe, tokyo ...
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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, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love and romance, unrequited love, teenage love, unfulfilled love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, kidnapping, youth, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Léon is ten years old, has lots of problems and an overly fertile imagination. Of course, there is mom and dad who are always fighting, and those annoying neighbors who get to spend the summer at the beach. And then, there's Léa, the ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever, dark comedy ...
Plot:
unrequited love, coming of age, children, childhood, youth, dysfunctional family, abused child, abandoned by mother, faking illness, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boyhood ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
canada, quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kostis is a 40-year-old doctor that finds himself in the small island of Antiparos, in order to take over the local clinic. His whole life and routine will turn upside down when he meets an international group of young and beautiful tourists and he ...
Style:
art house, sexy, touching, tense, light ...
Plot:
nudism, slutty woman, nude beach, greek island, doctor, unrequited love, nudist, sex scene, wench, harlot, sexually liberated, skinny dipping ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A gifted and well-qualified young teacher takes a job teaching natural sciences at a grammar school in the country. Here he makes the acquaintance of a woman and her troubled 17-year old son. The teac... read more read more...her has no romantic ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
age-gap relationship, hopes, unrequited love, gay rape, introspection, starting over, friendship, self control, couples, human nature, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, prague, europe, czech republic
Is relevant?
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, stalking, obsessive love, stalker, hospital, unrequited love, female psychopath, swimming pool, sexual obsession, swimming, dangerous attraction, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
In Skoddeheimen, Norway, 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
Style:
sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, phone sex, youth, teenage life, teenage girl, sexual fantasy, sexual attraction, erotic fantasy, female sexuality, teenage sexuality, unrequited love, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, oslo norway
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mitsuki (Tenka Hashimoto) and Yuya (Yukichi Kobayashi) become stepsister and stepbrother because of their parents' marriage. Mitsuki can't get along with her new family and Yuya doesn't know how to approach his new stepsister. One ...
Style:
sexy, humorous, psychological, captivating, romantic ...
Audience:
teen fantasy
Plot:
dream girl, japanese girl, japanese schoolgirl, taboo, teenage girl, chastity belt, teenage sexuality, japanese teenager, incestuous relationship, skirt, alternative lifestyle, sexy teacher ...
Place:
osaka japan, japan
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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, clever, psychological, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, love story, fall in love, unrequited love, relationships, love at first sight, love triangle, happy ending, flashback, dream girl, dating, destiny ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, france
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
It's the late 19th century, and the mysterious Dracula has arrived in London, posing as an American entrepreneur who wants to bring modern science to Victorian society. He's especially interested in the new technology of electricity, which ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, captivating, sentimental, colorful ...
Plot:
dracula, vampire, reincarnation, suspicion, unrequited love, victorian england, sex scene, vampire hunter, murder, party, love triangle, dancing ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, turn of the century
Place:
england, london, ottoman empire
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In the wake of her mother's tragic death, French teenager Junie (Léa Seydoux) transfers to a different high school. Though Junie lives mostly inside her own head, her beauty and stoicism win her the attention of the entire male student ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, psychological, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, high school, male teacher female student affair, forbidden love, relationships, fall in love, lifestyle, female nudity, unrequited love, adolescence, love triangle, love affair ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story:
A workplace comedy centered on Kevin, a young man who declares his unrequited love for his coworker Audrey in a letter, believing he’ll never see her again after he accepts a job overseas. But when the opportunity falls through and Kevin is forced ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, realistic, light hearted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
unrequited love, workplace, love and romance, office, workplace situations, workplace romance, crush, friendship between men, co worker co worker relationship, coworker relationship, workplace humor, love letter ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Denmark
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A remote fishing village in Iceland. Teenage boys Thor and Christian experience a turbulent summer as one tries to win the heart of a girl while the other discovers new feelings toward his best friend. When summer ends and the harsh nature of ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, lgbt cinema, thought provoking, social ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, coming of age, teenage boy, friendship between boys, gay teenager, lgbt teen, unrequited love, lgbtq, boy, first love, children ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
iceland, denmark
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A recently cheated on married woman falls for a younger man who has moved in next door, but their torrid affair soon takes a dangerous turn.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychosexual thriller, tense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
obsession, fatal attraction, older woman younger man relationship, stalking, dangerous attraction, obsessive love, woman in danger, danger, neighbor, stalker, blackmail, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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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:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the day in 1940 that Italy enters the war, two things happen to the 12-year-old Renato: he gets his first bike, and he gets his first look at Malèna. She is a beautiful, silent outsider who's moved to this Sicilian town to be with her ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, touching, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexuality, world war two, hot and sexy, coming of age, longing, older woman younger man relationship, unrequited love, fascism, wartime, older woman younger man, dream girl, women ...
Time:
1940s, ancient times, year 2000, 20th century, year 1943 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The taboo relationship between young Nadav and his Aunt Nina transcends definition on its way to odd highs and lows.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, sweet, semi serious ...
Plot:
incestuous desire, peeping tom, longing, sexual obsession, aunt nephew relationship, infatuation, unrequited love, coming of age, israeli, first love, voyeur, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At a picturesque lakeside estate, a love triangle unfolds between the legendary diva Irina, her lover Boris, and the ingénue Nina.
Style:
melancholic, sentimental, sincere, touching, sweet ...
Plot:
unrequited love, novelist, love triangle, mother daughter relationship, vanity, romantic rivalry, male female relationship, young woman, actress, unhappy marriage, skinny dipping, male nudity ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
moscow russia, russia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Serena Bruno is an architect who studied and got several masters in different countries of the world but she decides to go back to Italy so she can live and work there. She will soon find out that her native country is not as open minded and she ...
Style:
light, inspirational, sweet, comedy drama, happy ...
Plot:
unrequited love, gay, crush, job seeking, new job, homecoming, female protagonist, best friend, career woman, second chance, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Having lost his wife eleven years ago, Adnan devoted all his attention to his daughter Nihal and his son Bülent. Adnan, who lives in one of the most prominent mansions along the Bosporus in Istanbul with a relative's son Behlül, and his ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, tragic ending, tense, talky ...
Plot:
passion, adultery, mother daughter relationship, unrequited love, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, betrayal, family drama, family life, forbidden love, rivalry, mansion ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
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