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Best Romance Movies of the 2020s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
87 romance films from the 2020s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is CODA (2021), at 8.0 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.9. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Purple Hearts, 6.7 on IMDb against 30 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CODA '2021 | Drama / Musical / Romance | 8.0 | 94% | 72 | 7.9 | Sian Heder |
| 2 | Poor Things '2023 | Sci-Fi / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 92% | 88 | 7.6 | Yorgos Lanthimos |
| 3 | Past Lives '2023 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 95% | 94 | 7.7 | Celine Song |
| 4 | Hamnet '2025 | Drama / Romance | 7.8 | 86% | 84 | 7.7 | Chloé Zhao |
| 5 | Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc '2025 | Animation / Action / Romance / Fantasy | 8.3 | 96% | 71 | 8.5 | Tatsuya Yoshihara |
| 6 | The Worst Person in the World '2021 | Drama / Romance / Comedy | 7.7 | 96% | 91 | 7.4 | Joachim Trier |
| 7 | Palm Springs '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Sci-Fi | 7.4 | 95% | 83 | 7.3 | Max Barbakow |
| 8 | Anora '2024 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.4 | 93% | 91 | 7.1 | Sean Baker |
| 9 | Wicked '2024 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 7.3 | 88% | 73 | 6.9 | Jon M. Chu |
| 10 | All of Us Strangers '2023 | Romance / Drama / Fantasy | 7.6 | 96% | 90 | 7.4 | Andrew Haigh |
| 11 | The Little Mermaid '2023 | Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 67% | 59 | 6.3 | Rob Marshall |
| 12 | Where the Crawdads Sing '2022 | Drama / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 34% | 43 | 7.5 | Olivia Newman |
| 13 | The Drama '2026 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.1 | 76% | 59 | 6.9 | Kristoffer Borgli |
| 14 | Voicemails for Isabelle '2026 | Romance / Comedy / Drama | 7.3 | 88% | 62 | 8.3 | Leah McKendrick |
| 15 | Licorice Pizza '2021 | Drama / Comedy / Romance | 7.1 | 90% | 90 | 6.9 | Paul Thomas Anderson |
| 16 | West Side Story '2021 | Drama / Romance / Crime | 7.1 | 91% | 85 | 6.9 | Steven Spielberg |
| 17 | Elemental '2023 | Animation / Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 73% | 58 | 7.6 | Peter Sohn |
| 18 | Challengers '2024 | Drama / Romance | 7.0 | 88% | 82 | 6.9 | Luca Guadagnino |
| 19 | Decision to Leave '2022 | Thriller / Mystery / Romance | 7.2 | 94% | 85 | 7.3 | Park Chan-wook |
| 20 | The Fall Guy '2024 | Action / Comedy / Romance | 6.8 | 81% | 73 | 6.9 | David Leitch |
| 21 | Red, White & Royal Blue '2023 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 75% | 62 | 7.9 | Matthew López |
| 22 | Wish Dragon '2021 | Animation / Comedy / Fantasy / Romance | 7.2 | 71% | 59 | 7.8 | Chris Appelhans |
| 23 | We Live in Time '2024 | Romance / Drama | 7.0 | 79% | 59 | 7.2 | John Crowley |
| 24 | The Half of It '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 97% | 74 | 7.1 | Alice Wu |
| 25 | The Gorge '2025 | Romance / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 6.7 | 62% | 57 | 7.7 | Scott Derrickson |
| 26 | Hit Man '2024 | Comedy / Romance / Crime | 6.8 | 95% | 82 | 6.8 | Richard Linklater |
| 27 | Together '2025 | Horror / Romance | 6.7 | 89% | 75 | 6.9 | Michael Shanks |
| 28 | Bones and All '2022 | Horror / Romance / Drama | 6.8 | 82% | 74 | 7.0 | Luca Guadagnino |
| 29 | Emma. '2020 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 6.7 | 86% | 71 | 7.0 | Autumn de Wilde |
| 30 | Wicked: For Good '2025 | Fantasy / Romance | 6.6 | 66% | 58 | 6.6 | Jon M. Chu |
| 31 | Purple Hearts '2022 | Romance / Drama | 6.7 | 32% | 30 | 8.0 | Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum |
| 32 | Three Thousand Years of Longing '2022 | Drama / Fantasy / Romance | 6.7 | 71% | 60 | 6.9 | George Miller |
| 33 | Summer of 85 '2020 | Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 82% | 65 | 7.4 | François Ozon |
| 34 | Happiest Season '2020 | Romance / Comedy | 6.6 | 82% | 69 | 7.1 | Clea DuVall |
| 35 | All the Bright Places '2020 | Romance / Drama | 6.6 | 67% | 61 | 7.6 | Brett Haley |
| 36 | A Whisker Away '2020 | Animation / Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.7 | 93% | - | 7.9 | Junichi Sato |
| 37 | Benedetta '2021 | Drama / Romance | 6.7 | 84% | 75 | 6.6 | Paul Verhoeven |
| 38 | Malcolm & Marie '2021 | Drama / Romance | 6.6 | 57% | 53 | 7.0 | Sam Levinson |
| 39 | Love Lies Bleeding '2024 | Crime / Romance / Thriller | 6.6 | 94% | 77 | 6.6 | Rose Glass |
| 40 | Fly Me to the Moon '2024 | Romance / Comedy | 6.6 | 66% | 53 | 6.8 | Greg Berlanti |
| 41 | Miraculous: Ladybug & Cat Noir, The Movie '2023 | Animation / Fantasy / Action / Romance | 6.1 | 54% | - | 7.6 | Jeremy Zag |
| 42 | I Still Believe '2020 | Musical / Drama / Romance | 6.5 | 50% | 41 | 7.6 | Andrew Erwin |
| 43 | Dracula '2025 | Horror / Fantasy / Romance | 6.2 | 54% | 44 | 7.3 | Luc Besson |
| 44 | Gabriel's Inferno: Part III '2020 | Romance / Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 8.3 | Tosca Musk |
| 45 | Gabriel's Inferno: Part II '2020 | Romance / Drama | 6.3 | - | - | 8.3 | Tosca Musk |
| 46 | Isi & Ossi '2020 | Romance / Comedy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Oliver Kienle |
| 47 | Beating Hearts '2024 | Romance / Crime / Drama | 7.0 | 44% | 50 | 7.2 | Gilles Lellouche |
| 48 | Chemical Hearts '2020 | Drama / Romance | 6.3 | 59% | 57 | 7.3 | Richard Tanne |
| 49 | Life in a Year '2020 | Drama / Romance | 6.2 | - | - | 8.2 | Mitja Okorn |
| 50 | Gabriel's Inferno '2020 | Romance / Drama | 5.8 | - | - | 8.4 | Tosca Musk |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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