Romance movie

**Romance movies** are a genre of movies that involve romantic love stories. They are recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television. These movies focus on passion, emotion and the romantic involvement of the main characters. The story is normally about such things as dating, courtship or marriage.  These main focus of the plot of these movies is the search for romantic love. There movies can also include problems for the characters to overcome. These can include problems with  finances, physical illness, discrimination, psychological issues or family resistance.  As in all romantic relationships, the problems of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and personal differences are often parts of the plots of romantic movies.

Romantic movies often deal with many different types of love. These include love at first sight, young love, unrequited love, obsession, spiritual love, forbidden love and tragic love. For many people. romantic movies are escapes and fantasies. This is often the case if the two leads overcome their difficulties, fall in love and "happily ever after". In romantic television series, the development of such relationships may happen over many episodes or even seasons.

Screenwriter Eric R. Williams list Romance Movies as one of eleven super-genres in his screenwriters' taxonomy. He says that all feature length narrative movies can be classified by these super-genres. The other ten super-genres are action, crime, fantasy, horror, science fiction, comedy, sports, thriller, war and western.

### Chick flick

**Chick flick** is a term used for romance movird targeted to a female audience.   Movies of this genre include _Gilda_, _The Red Shoes_, _Sense and Sensibility_, _Gentlemen Prefer Blondes_, _Dirty Dancing_, _The Notebook_, _Dear John_, _, Thelma & Louise, Fifty Shades of Grey_, _Sleepless in Seattle_,_You've Got Mail_ and_ Romeo + Juliet._

### Historical romance

These are also known as epic romances. They are a romantic story with a historical period setting, They often include war, revolution or tragedy. This includes movies such as _Gone with the Wind_, _Doctor Zhivago_, , _Titanic_, _A Very Long Engagement_, and _Cold War_.

### Paranormal romance

**Paranormal romance** is a popular genre of movie which features romantic relationships between humans and supernatural creatures. Popular tropes include vampirism, time travel and ghosts – things that cannot be explained by science. Examples of these movies include movies based on the Twilight Saga, _The Exterminating Angel_,, _Warm Bodies_, _Vampire Academy and_  _I Am Dragon._

### Romantic action

**Romantic action** is a movie that blend romance and action. Examples include _The Hunger Games_,  _The Adventures of Robin Hood_,, _The Best Years of Our Lives_, , _The Quiet Man_, _Mr. & Mrs. Smith and_ _Knight and Day_.

### Romantic comedy

**Romantic comedies** are a very common subgenre of romantic movies. They are also called rom-coms. These movies are a mix of romance and comedy. They usually have light-hearted, humorous plotlines, Rom-coms are often about romantic ideals such as that true love is able to overcome all obstacles. Movies in this genre include , _A Night at the Opera_, _It Happened One Night_, _His Girl Friday_, _Roman Holiday_, _Lost In Translation_, _To All the Boys I've Loved Before_, _Four Weddings and a Funeral_, _Dave_, _Say Anything..._, _Moonstruck_, _Something's Gotta Give_, _When Harry Met Sally..._, _Annie Hall and_ _The Apartment_.

### Romantic drama

**Romantic dramas** are often about something that prevents true love between two people. The end of a romantic drama typically does not show if a romantic union occurs.

Some examples of romantic drama movies are _Casablanca_, _Pride & Prejudice_, _Sommersby_, _The Bridges of Madison County_, _The English Patient_, _Shakespeare in Love_,  and _An Officer and a Gentleman_.

Same-sex romantic dramas that deal with LGBT issues include _Brokeback Mountain_, _Blue is the Warmest Colour_, _Moonlight_, and _Call Me by Your Name_.

### Romantic fantasy

Romantic fantasies tell fantasy stories using many of the elements of the romance genre. Some examples include _The Lady Eve_, _Singin' in the Rain_, _Groundhog Day_, _Enchanted_, _Beauty and the Beast_, _Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind_, _Midnight in Paris_ and _The Shape of Water._

### Romantic musical

**Romantic musical** (alternatively **musical romance**) is a genre that combines romance and musicals. They have romantic relationships and whose story is told with song and dance. This genre began on Broadway. It later moved to cinema because of to the popularity of the Rodgers and Hammerstein productions.

Some examples include _West Side Story_ and its 2021 remake, _Grease_, _High School Musical_, _Across the Universe_, _Moulin Rouge!_ and _La La Land_.

### Romantic thriller

**Romantic thriller** is a genre of movie that combines the romance movie with and the thriller genre. Some examples of romantic thriller movies are _Vertigo_, _The Crying Game_, , _Unfaithful_, _The Phantom of the Opera_ and _The Adjustment Bureau_.

## Related pages

- Romantic comedy
- Drama (movies and television)
- Romance (love)

## Other websites

- Top-rated English-language Romance movies at IMDb