Romance Films
148 films in the romance genre, all public domain and free to watch.
Romance in public domain cinema runs from silent melodramas through pre-Code relationship comedies to post-war soaps. The genre was a staple of studio B-units, which means a lot of it was made cheaply and forgotten quickly. What survives tends to be the films where the writing or the performances rose above the budget. Pre-Code romances from the early 1930s are a particular strength of the public domain, since many were made before the Production Code forced studios to punish characters who strayed.
A Farewell to Arms
1932 - Drama - 6.6/10
A Lady to Love
1930 - Drama - 6/10
A Notorious Affair
1930 - Drama - 5.6/10
A Star Is Born
1937 - Drama - 7.5/10
A Woman of Paris
1923 - Drama - 7.5/10
Algiers
1938 - Crime - 7/10
Angel and the Badman
1947 - Western - 6.9/10
Anna Christie
1930 - Drama - 7/10
Beau Brummel
1924 - Drama - 6.8/10
Beau Ideal
1931 - Adventure - 6/10
Behind Office Doors
1931 - Drama - 5.7/10
Bird of Paradise
1932 - Adventure - 6.4/10
Blood and Sand
1922 - Drama - 6.8/10
Camille
1921 - Drama - 6.8/10
Carmen
1915 - Drama - 6.3/10
Champagne
1928 - Comedy - 6.4/10
Charade
1963 - Thriller - 8/10
Cobra
1925 - Drama - 6.3/10
Coquette
1929 - Drama - 5.9/10
Cyrano de Bergerac
1950 - Drama - 7.4/10
Daddy-Long-Legs
1919 - Comedy - 7/10
Dangerous Curves
1929 - Drama - 6/10
Dixiana
1930 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Don Q, Son of Zorro
1925 - Adventure - 7/10
Dynamite
1929 - Drama - 5.8/10
East Side, West Side
1927 - Drama - 6.2/10
Easy Virtue
1928 - Drama - 6.3/10
Eternal Love
1929 - Drama - 5.5/10
Fast and Loose
1930 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Flesh and the Devil
1926 - Romance - 7.5/10
For the Defense
1930 - Crime - 6.3/10
Get Your Man
1927 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Girl Shy
1924 - Comedy - 7.7/10
Half Way to Heaven
1929 - Drama - 5.8/10
Hangman's House
1928 - Drama - 6.8/10
His Girl Friday
1940 - Comedy - 8.2/10
Holiday
1930 - Comedy - 6.5/10
Irene
1926 - Comedy - 6/10
It
1927 - Comedy - 7/10
Kismet
1920 - Drama - 6/10
Ladies of Leisure
1930 - Drama - 6.5/10
Lady Windermere's Fan
1925 - Drama - 7.1/10
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
1928 - Drama - 7.4/10
Laughter
1930 - Comedy - 6/10
Let Us Be Gay
1930 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Lights of Old Broadway
1925 - Drama - 6.7/10
Liliom
1930 - Drama - 7/10
Lonesome
1928 - Drama - 7.4/10
Lorna Doone
1922 - Drama - 6.8/10
Love
1927 - Romance - 6.9/10
Love Affair
1939 - Romance - 7.4/10
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
1946 - Comedy - 5.9/10
Made for Each Other
1939 - Drama - 7.2/10
Millie
1931 - Drama - 6/10
Morocco
1930 - Romance - 7.2/10
Mr. Imperium
1951 - Musical - 5.8/10
My Best Girl
1927 - Comedy - 6.5/10
My Dear Secretary
1948 - Comedy - 6.2/10
My Man Godfrey
1936 - Comedy - 7.9/10
Nothing Sacred
1937 - Comedy - 7.5/10
Of Human Bondage
1934 - Drama - 7.3/10
Old San Francisco
1927 - Drama - 6.3/10
Our Blushing Brides
1930 - Drama - 6/10
Our Hospitality
1923 - Comedy - 7.8/10
Our Modern Maidens
1929 - Comedy - 6/10
Our Town
1940 - Drama - 6.8/10
Penny Serenade
1941 - Romance - 7.3/10
Playboy of Paris
1930 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Pot o' Gold
1941 - Comedy - 6.4/10
Raffles
1930 - Crime - 6.4/10
Reaching for the Moon
1930 - Comedy - 5.5/10
Reet, Petite, and Gone
1947 - Musical - 5/10
Rio Rita
1929 - Musical - 6/10
Rival Romeos
1928 - Animation - 5.5/10
Road to Bali
1952 - Comedy - 6.7/10
Robin Hood
1922 - Adventure - 7.5/10
Royal Wedding
1951 - Musical - 7.2/10
Sally
1929 - Musical - 6/10
Scaramouche
1923 - Adventure - 7.4/10
Second Chorus
1940 - Musical - 6.3/10
Seven Chances
1925 - Comedy - 7.9/10
7th Heaven
1927 - Romance - 7.4/10
Show Boat
1929 - Drama - 6.6/10
Show People
1928 - Comedy - 7.6/10
Smouldering Fires
1925 - Drama - 6.8/10
The Son of the Sheik
1926 - Romance - 7/10
Souls for Sale
1923 - Drama - 7/10
Stella Dallas
1925 - Drama - 7.3/10
Street Angel
1928 - Drama - 7.3/10
Street Girl
1929 - Musical - 5.8/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 - Romance - 8.1/10
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 - Drama - 8/10
Surrender
1927 - Drama - 6.5/10
Sweetie
1929 - Musical - 5.4/10
Swing High, Swing Low
1937 - Comedy - 7/10
That Uncertain Feeling
1941 - Comedy - 6.5/10
The Affairs of Anatol
1921 - Comedy - 6.7/10
The Amazing Adventure
1936 - Comedy - 6/10
The Animal Kingdom
1932 - Drama - 6.5/10
The Big Parade
1925 - War - 8/10
The Big Pond
1930 - Comedy - 6.5/10
The Broadway Melody
1929 - Musical - 6/10
The Cameraman
1928 - Comedy - 7.9/10
The Dance of Life
1929 - Drama - 6.4/10
The Devil to Pay!
1930 - Comedy - 6.5/10
The Divorcee
1930 - Drama - 6.9/10
The Docks of New York
1928 - Drama - 7.5/10
The Eagle
1925 - Romance - 7.4/10
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921 - Drama - 7/10
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 - Romance - 7.4/10
The Lady Refuses
1931 - Drama - 5.8/10
The Last Time I Saw Paris
1954 - Drama - 6.3/10
The Leopard Woman
1920 - Adventure - 5/10
The Love Light
1921 - Drama - 6.9/10
The Love Parade
1930 - Musical - 7/10
The Man on the Box
1925 - Comedy - 5.5/10
The Man Who Laughs
1928 - Drama - 7.5/10
The Mark of Zorro
1920 - Romance - 7.3/10
The Marriage Circle
1924 - Comedy - 7/10
The Merry Widow
1925 - Romance - 7.3/10
The Plastic Age
1925 - Comedy - 6.5/10
The Pride of the Clan
1917 - Drama - 5.5/10
The Prisoner of Zenda
1922 - Adventure - 7/10
The Red Lily
1924 - Drama - 6.9/10
The Ring
1927 - Drama - 6.8/10
The River of Romance
1929 - Romance - 5.8/10
The Sea Hawk
1924 - Adventure - 7.3/10
The Sheik
1921 - Romance - 6.3/10
The Show
1927 - Drama - 6.7/10
The Single Standard
1929 - Drama - 6.5/10
The Snows of Kilimanjaro
1952 - Drama - 6.6/10
The Son of the Sheik
1926 - Romance - 7/10
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
1927 - Romance - 7.4/10
The Thief of Bagdad
1924 - Romance - 7.7/10
The Three Musketeers
1921 - Adventure - 7.2/10
The Wedding March
1928 - Drama - 7.5/10
Their Own Desire
1929 - Drama - 6.5/10
Three Ages
1923 - Comedy - 7/10
Three Guys Named Mike
1951 - Comedy - 6.3/10
Tiger Rose
1923 - Drama - 6/10
Torrent
1926 - Drama - 6.5/10
True to the Navy
1930 - Comedy - 6/10
Untamed
1929 - Drama - 6/10
When a Man Loves
1927 - Romance - 6.5/10
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922 - Romance - 6.5/10
Why Be Good?
1929 - Comedy - 6/10
Why Change Your Wife?
1920 - Comedy - 6.5/10
Wings
1927 - War - 7.6/10