Best Romantic Independent Films on Netflix 2026
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Our pick of the best Romantic Independent Films on Netflix right now, ranked by audience rating out of the 100 titles in category code 9916. Tap any title for full details and where to watch.
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1. Sillu Karuppatti (2019)
Rated 8.8/10 on IMDb, from 2019, 2h 13m. From first crushes to post-marriage relationships, love and connection are at the heart of the four interwoven stories in this anthology film.
2. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 2004, 1h 43m. After learning that his ex-girlfriend had an experimental medical procedure to purge all memories of him, a man decides to do the same with her.
3. Forever (2010)
Rated 8.3/10 on IMDb, from 2010, 1h 29m. Creating romantic marriage fantasies on camera, a consultant falls for a music teacher who appears as her groom in a promotional wedding video.
4. Before Sunrise (1995)
Rated 8.1/10 on IMDb, one of IMDb's Top 250, from 1995, 1h 40m. An American backpacker strikes up a conversation with a woman on the train to Vienna and persuades her to spend his last day in Europe with him.
5. Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2008, 1h 55m. After coming within one question of winning a fortune on a game show, an uneducated young 'slumdog' is accused of cheating and arrested.
6. Manu (2018)
Rated 8/10 on IMDb, from 2018, 2h 57m. The relationship between a painter and his admirer unfolds as an abstract, twist-filled hide-and-seek game against the backdrop of murder and revenge.
7. The Artist (2011)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2011, 1h 40m. Winner of five Oscars, this black-and-white silent film follows the romance between a silent-era legend on a downward spiral and a rising starlet.
8. Before Midnight (2013)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2013, 1h 49m. Years after being reunited, multinational lovers Jesse and Celine struggle with their faded romance in this second sequel to the drama Before Sunrise.
9. Call Me by Your Name (2017)
Rated 7.9/10 on IMDb, from 2017, 2h 11m. In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio forms a life-changing bond with his father's charismatic research assistant Oliver in the Italian countryside.
10. What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Rated 7.8/10 on IMDb, from 1993, 1h 57m. In a backwater Iowa town, young Gilbert is torn between taking care of his troubled family and a girl who shows him new possibilities for his life.