Best Chinese Romance Movies

This page is updated regularly. Subscribe, so you don't miss new recommendations. The list of "Best Chinese Romance Movies" contains films with the following parameters. Style: captivating, romantic, touching, sentimental, serious and realistic. Plot: love and romance, love, love story, couple relations, fall in love, male female relationship, relationships, husband wife relationship, family relations and friendship. Genre: Romance, Drama and Comedy. Country: China, USA and UK.
Best Chinese Romance Movies
Best Chinese Romance Movies
TOP Movies: Better Days (2019), Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010), I Married an Anti-Fan (2016), White Snake (2019), The Mermaid (2016), The Road Home (1999), Us and Them (2018), Never Gone (2016), The Third Way of Love (2015), My Best Summer (2019), Sky Hunter (2017), Hi, Mom (2021), Coming Home (2014), The Flowers of War (2011), Raise the Red Lantern (1991), This Is Not What I Expected (2017), Phantom Thread (2017), Emma. (2020), I Feel Pretty (2018), Downton Abbey (2019).

List of Best Movies

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 7.6
 13K
Better Days (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A bullied teenage girl forms an unlikely friendship with a mysterious young man who protects her from her assailants, while she copes with the pressures of her final examinations.
Style: enigmatic, romantic, disturbing, social, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, romantic relationship, friendship, grownups, love and romance, relationships, social problems, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dishonesty, asian, love ...
Place: china
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Under the Hawthorn Tree (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The daughter of a right-winger, schoolgirl Jing Qiu (Zhou Dong-Yu) is sent to the countryside for reeducation, and tasked to help write a textbook. There she meets Lao San (Shawn Dou), a young soldier with a bright future ahead. Despite the class ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: tragic love, social differences, forbidden love, revolution, society, youth, love and romance, unfulfilled love, fall in love, young lovers, totalitarian regime, terminal illness ...
Time: 2010s, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: china, asia
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I Married an Anti-Fan (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When journalist Miaomiao Fang accidentally snaps a photo of top Korean star Zhun Hou at a night club, she finds out more about his personal life than she bargained for. Zhun tries to protect his image and forces Miaomiao's magazine to fire her. ...
Style: romantic, humorous, light, entertaining, funny ...
Plot: arrogant woman, reporter, love and romance, initially antagonists, idol, relationship problems, celebrity, arrogant man, musician's life, relationship vs career, relationships, male female relationship ...
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 7.0
 5K
White Snake (2019)
Genre: Animation, Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One day a young woman named Blanca is saved by Xuan, a snake catcher from a nearby village. She has lost her memory, and together they go on a journey to discover her real identity, developing deeper feelings for one another along the way. But as ...
Style: light, captivating, exciting, anime, fairy tale ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: ancient, dragon, love, mythical creature, snake, legend, good versus evil, magical, magic, supernatural ability, young girl, demon ...
Place: china
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 6.2
 10K
The Mermaid (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A playboy business tycoon, Liu Xuan, purchases the Green Gulf, a wildlife reserve, for a sea reclamation project, and uses sonar technology to get rid of the sea life in the area. Unknown to him, the Green Gulf is the home of merpeople, and the ...
Style: captivating, light, exciting, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing
Plot: mermaid, merman, environmental issue, wealth, amusement park, supernatural ability, teenage life, friendship, friends, hopes, danger, escapades ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: china
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 7.8
 14K
The Road Home (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prompted by the death of his father and the grief of his mother, a man recalls the story of how they met in flashback.
Style: emotional, romantic, road movie, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: true love, love, love story, death, teacher, coming of age, winter, first love, village life, loneliness, snow, school ...
Time: year 1999, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: china, asia
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 7.4
 5K
Us and Them (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make ...
Style: realistic, clever, sweet, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: encounter, unlikely couple, train travel, destiny, couple relations, love and romance, opposites attract, dysfunctional relationship, bittersweet, happy ending, unfulfillment, comedy of errors ...
Time: 2010s
Place: thailand, china
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 5.1
 1K
Never Gone (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A wealthy young man pursues a young woman of modest means, but circumstances often separate them as the years pass.
Style: romantic, controversial, touching, melancholic, suspense ...
Plot: high school, first love, true love, opposites attract, breaking up with girlfriend, family problems, father daughter relationship, relationship problems, grownups, asian, youth, rich man poor woman ...
Place: china
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The Third Way of Love (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: "The Third Way of Love" tells the sad love story of Lin Qi Zheng, who is from a rich family, and Zhou Yu who is a smart and beautiful lawyer.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, romantic triangle, star crossed lovers, relationship problems, love triangle, rich man, love affair, tragic love, unfulfilled love, male female relationship, family relations, sister ...
Place: china
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 6.0
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My Best Summer (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Geng Geng had been an ordinary girl before her entry to the best high school in the province by chance. She doesn't like her life there until she meets Yu Huai, her seatmate - their names make up the word "Geng geng yu huai", meaning ...
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, romantic
Plot: teenage love, first love, friendship, youth, love, young love, fall in love, male female friendship, friendship between teens, school, classmate, high school life ...
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 5.6
 2K
Sky Hunter (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An elite group of Chinese pilots must take part in a dangerous mission to thwart a terrorist plot and resolve a hostage situation.
Style: tense, suspense
Plot: chinese army, air force, military, terrorism, war propaganda, medieval, terrorist plot, fight for supremacy, power struggle, terrorist attack, terrorist group, terrorist ...
Place: china
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 6.9
 3K
Hi, Mom (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story: After her mother Li Huanying is fatally injured in a car accident in 2001, grief-stricken Jia Xiaoling finds herself transported back in time to the year 1981, where she becomes her mother's close friend. Jia Xiaoling feels that she has not ...
Style: light, feel good, romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot: time travel, love and romance, parents and children, time traveler, mother daughter relationship, mother and daughter, family relations, male female relationship, love affair, romantic relationship, escapades, kids and family ...
Place: china
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 7.2
 7K
Coming Home (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lu and Feng are a devoted couple forced to separate when Lu is arrested and sent to a labor camp as a political prisoner during the Cultural Revolution. He finally returns home only to find that his beloved wife no longer remembers him.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot: labor camp, amnesia, political prisoner, love and romance, hopes, political unrest, couples, crime and punishment, breakup, family problems, state affairs, cultural revolution ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014
Place: china, east asia
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The Flowers of War (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: China
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A Westerner finds refuge with a group of women in a church during Japan's rape of Nanking in 1937. Posing as a priest, he attempts to lead the women to safety.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, harsh, visually stunning ...
Plot: world war two, atrocity, war, japanese occupation of china, prostitution, holocaust, sino japanese war, prostitute, wartime, genocide, oppression, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, ancient times, 1930s
Place: china, asia, east asia, seattle
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Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 125 min.
Story: China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style: visually stunning, depressing, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: intrigue, polygamy, feminism, jealousy, wealth, insanity, teenage girl, women, mistress, massage, feminist, tragic event ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: china, tibet, east asia, asia
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This Is Not What I Expected (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Lu Jin is a handsome, wealthy hotel executive whose drive for perfection is matched only by his taste for fine cuisine. When he checks into the Rosebud, he's dissatisfied with everything he sees and is ready to take action... until flamboyant ...
Style: captivating, inspirational, feel good, entertaining, light
Plot: chef, happy ending, food, couple relations, justice, cooking, love story, life philosophy, coworker relationship, love, art, asian ...
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 7.4
 144K
Phantom Thread (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Renowned British dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock comes across Alma, a young, strong-willed woman, who soon becomes a fixture in his life as his muse and lover.
Style: sentimental, period piece, suspense, psychological, visual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fashion, fashion show, seamstress, fashion designer, brother sister relationship, dressmaker, lady, masochism, doctor, wedding, haute couture, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time: 1950s, 2010s, year 2017, post world war two, 50s
Place: london, alps
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 6.7
 62K
Emma. (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In 1800s England, a well-meaning but selfish young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends.
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, costume drama, captivating ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, kids
Plot: love and romance, male female relationship, estate, prejudice, looking for love, female protagonist, couples, english countryside, friendship, wedding, unrequited love, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 2020s, victorian era, future, 1800s ...
Place: england, yorkshire
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 5.6
 57K
I Feel Pretty (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: China, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A head injury causes a woman to develop an extraordinary amount of confidence and believe she's drop dead gorgeous.
Style: light, captivating, romantic, humorous, rom com ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot: believe in yourself, self confidence, beauty queen, confidence, female protagonist, self esteem, delusion, friendship, cosmetics, fat woman, couple relations, low self esteem ...
Place: new york, usa
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 7.4
 63K
Downton Abbey (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the ...
Style: family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: estate, aristocracy, servant, intrigue, butler, country estate, domestic servant, class differences, british royal family, closeted homosexual, country house, aristocrat ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, london
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
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In the Mood for Love (2000)
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: art house, atmospheric, melancholic, visually stunning, artsy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: loneliness, adultery, infidelity, forbidden love, marriage, love affair, unrequited love, love, newspaper, food, tragedy, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: hong kong, japan, china, east asia, shanghai ...
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Love Will Tear Us Apart (2021)
Genre: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lu and Ling, two high-school sweethearts who pledged to get married to each other in their youth. Over the next 10 years, their relationship is tried and tested by a number of obstacles that stand in their way.
Style: romantic, talky, emotional, touching
Plot: love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, love and romance, teenage girl, school, teenage boy, relationships, love story, social problems, fall in love, love affair ...
Time: future, 21st century
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 6.3
 6K
All My Life (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A couple's wedding plans are thrown off course when the groom is diagnosed with liver cancer.
Style: romantic, heartbreaking, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Plot: cancer, asian man white woman relationship, star crossed lovers, terminal illness, wedding, dying, interracial romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, destiny, hopes, illness, fighting illness ...
Time: 2020s, year 2015
Place: bahamas, new orleans
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The Photograph (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, China
Duration: 106 min.
Story: When famed photographer Christina Eames dies unexpectedly, she leaves her estranged daughter, Mae, hurt, angry and full of questions. When Mae finds a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box, she soon finds herself delving into her ...
Style: uplifting, disturbing, sweet, romantic drama, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: sex, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, black, fall in love, friendship, love affair, journalism, black history, love and romance, couples, destiny ...
Time: year 1984, year 1988
Place: louisiana, london, new york
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Love Contractually (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A strict female CEO of an insurance company has already given up on love and believes that only the love towards a child is true and eternal. Thus, she decides to have her own child so she "borrows" sperm from a delivery man whom she ...
Style: light, entertaining, captivating, romantic
Plot: fall in love, love and romance, love story, relationships, wanting a baby, in love, couple relations, love affair, relationship vs career, romantic relationship, male female relationship, child ...
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Official Secrets (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun, who prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed ...
Style: political, suspenseful, psychological, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, date night, adult
Plot: whistleblower, spy, british politics, espionage, politics, british secret service, legal, lawyer, iraq war, expose, female secret agent, secret ...
Time: year 2003, year 2019, 2000s, year 2004
Place: kurdistan, united kingdom, london, washington d.c.
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The Space Between Us (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young man raised by scientists on Mars returns to Earth to find his father.
Style: romantic, futuristic, light, sweet, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot: mars, love story, teenage love, teenager, nasa, astronaut, travel, road trip, life & death, beautiful scenery, outer space, space mission ...
Time: future, near future, year 2017
Place: usa, california, las vegas
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Never Said Goodbye (2016)
Genre: Romance
Country: China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Junhao declares to go to Sicily to learn opera and ends the relationship with his fiancée, Xiaoyou. In disbelief, she determines to learn the truth behind his sudden decision. Lee Joon-gi has teamed up with Lin for his first Chinese film.
Style: romantic, sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: terminal illness, couple relations, star crossed lovers, love and romance, lovers apart, relationship problems, male female relationship, tragic love, illness, love interest, love story, relationships ...
Place: china
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Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 150 min.
Story: At her 70th birthday celebration, the aged mother of the Gu family suffers from a stroke, which precipitates her decline into dementia. Who will take care of her? The four brothers face crucial changes in their relationships to one another, as they ...
Style: thought provoking, captivating, anime, beautiful
Plot: family relations, river, lifestyle, wildlife, mountain cabin, nature, mother in law daughter in law relationship, birthday, grandmother granddaughter relationship, real estate, heart attack, urbanization ...
Time: year 2017, year 2019, 2010s
Place: china
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