Romantic Films based on a book on Netflix

Because they come from different castes, the son of a tax collector and his true love are not allowed to marry, sending them down divergent paths.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 8.8
Runtime: 02:16:32
Netflix ID: 70113305 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A con man's plan to steal an heiress's heart -- and her fortune -- gets complicated when she falls for the handmaid he hired to help with his scheme.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 8.1
Runtime: 02:24:53
Netflix ID: 80113804 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An average college student falls for a beautiful drunk girl he meets on the subway, but keeping up with her wild antics takes a toll on him.

Year: 2001
IMDb: 8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 02:03:34
Netflix ID: 80098478 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In 1950s China, a summons from the communist government cuts short the courtship of a young country girl and her village's new schoolteacher.

Year: 1999
IMDb: 7.9
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 01:29:22
Netflix ID: 60004447 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

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.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.9
Runtime: 02:11:58
Netflix ID: 80169498 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

In this Merchant-Ivory period drama, a dutiful butler dedicates himself to tending his lord's house, turning a blind eye to his Nazi sympathies.

Year: 1993
IMDb: 7.8
Netflix rating: 3.7/5
Runtime: 02:14:15
Netflix ID: 60011325 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Seven libidinal teens, including an honor student and a lazy goof-off, explore a complex but heartfelt friendship in the final months before college.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:50:08
Netflix ID: 80196111 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

One strange night in Kyoto seems to last a year. One hapless college student wants to confess his love to his classmate, but she's on her own journey.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.6
Runtime: 01:32:36
Netflix ID: 80990742 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A shy college photography buff forms a bond with a cute classmate who abruptly disappears from his life when he develops feelings for another girl.

Year: 2006
IMDb: 7.5
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:56:49
Netflix ID: 80127826 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young man falls for a beautiful stranger. But as his love for her grows, he learns her secret and realizes that their time together is fleeting.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:50:29
Netflix ID: 80201634 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When she falls in love with the author of a novel she adores, bohemian Bitti enlists the help of a local printer to find her new object of affection.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.5
Runtime: 01:50:21
Netflix ID: 81016193 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Two strangers meet on a train and form a bond that evolves over the years. After a separation, they reconnect and reflect on their love for each other.

Year: 2018
IMDb: 7.3
Runtime: 01:59:04
Netflix ID: 80993655 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wealthy married woman and a female department store clerk begin a forbidden affair in the 1950s that leads to both heartache and liberating joy.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7.2
Netflix rating: 3.4/5
Runtime: 01:58:31
Netflix ID: 80058700 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A librarian looks back on his friendship with his high school classmate who never let her terminal disease stop her from living life to the fullest.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 7.2
Runtime: 01:55:25
Netflix ID: 80992629 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shy Mr. Hoppy loves two things: His balcony garden and his bubbly neighbor, Mrs. Silver. Alas, she only has eyes for Alfie, her beloved pet tortoise.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 7
Runtime: 01:27:30
Netflix ID: 80203506 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After widowed neighbors Addie and Louis begin sleeping in bed together platonically to alleviate their loneliness, a real romance begins to blossom.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.9
Runtime: 01:43:16
Netflix ID: 80104068 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A classical pianist is called to heaven early for reasons involving a late pianist he had admired and her niece, who is still on earth.

Year: 2004
IMDb: 6.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:51:11
Netflix ID: 80103556 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Gangster Bugsy Siegel builds a gambling mecca in the middle of the Nevada desert, but his affair with a screen siren would ultimately bring him down.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 6.8
Runtime: 02:16:08
Netflix ID: 70058803 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This provocative drama follows a newly ordained priest who finds his lofty ideals tested when he begins a sexual liaison with a teenage parishioner.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 6.7
Netflix rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 01:58:46
Netflix ID: 60025024 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A mother travels to Patagonia with her autistic son with the hopes that a ranger and a pod of wild orcas can help him find an emotional connection.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.7
Runtime: 01:50:14
Netflix ID: 80105690 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A curious girl caught up in the revolutionary spirit of 1969 meets a trio of bohemian friends and falls confusedly in love for the first time.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 02:12:08
Netflix ID: 80192041 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A writer copes with her fiancé’s death by sending him romantic text messages. But the phone number has been reassigned -- to a man who’s intrigued.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.6
Runtime: 01:47:30
Netflix ID: 80222898 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A lonely girl in Tokyo finds a young, handsome man with an affinity for weeds and herbs collapsed on her doorstep and agrees to take him in.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:52:15
Netflix ID: 80127649 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Traditional Indian folklore comes alive in this charming film based on a story by Statwart Vijaydan Detha.

Year: 2005
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 02:13:32
Netflix ID: 70039405 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After a painful split from her boyfriend of seven years, a heartbroken wedding planner finds support from an unlikely source.

Year: 2011
IMDb: 6.5
Runtime: 01:44:58
Netflix ID: 81027768 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Forced to continually relive the day she dies in a car crash, a privileged high schooler must unravel the cosmic mystery of her suddenly looping life.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:38:44
Netflix ID: 80148178 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

While visiting family in Scotland, an intellectual young French woman and a Scottish fisherman begin an affair they will revisit for decades to come.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 6.4
Runtime: 01:46:01
Netflix ID: 60026003 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A 30-year-old who's never taken the traditional path to love is tutored by her friends and family before reconnecting with her high school crush.

Year: 2015
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3.1/5
Runtime: 01:43:39
Netflix ID: 80134514 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

High-class courtesan Asagiri plans to finish her indenture and leave the Yoshiwara pleasure district of Edo, until she meets the handsome Hanjiro.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 2.9/5
Runtime: 01:42:27
Netflix ID: 80135212 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

For a designer, a manga writer, an aspiring scribe and his friend, fate blurs with happenstance and love lives collide on a magical Christmas night.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 6.3
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:54:09
Netflix ID: 80161465 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After some time living in civilized 19th-century London, the ape-raised Tarzan returns to wild Congo and faces off against abominable colonialists.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 6.2
Runtime: 01:49:54
Netflix ID: 80094721 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

The upcoming marriage of a German and his German-Italian fiancée turns into a clash of cultures as the pair goes to Italy for a big family wedding.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:33:56
Netflix ID: 80174570 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

An obedient woman in a loveless arranged marriage falls in love for the first time. Devastatingly, it's with her husband's boss.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.9
Runtime: 01:35:11
Netflix ID: 80196042 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

When high school student Emiko meets older student Yo, they begin a physical relationship. Emiko loses her heart, but Yo remains cold to her.

Year: 2014
IMDb: 5.8
Netflix rating: 3/5
Runtime: 01:59:03
Netflix ID: 80114364 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Decades after defecting, a former Soviet official visits Russia with his niece to find out the fate of the woman he had loved behind the Iron Curtain.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:33:26
Netflix ID: 80179174 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Harboring painfully fresh memories of her husband's affair, a housewife gets lured into a passionate liaison with a debonair village doctor.

Year: 2002
IMDb: 5.8
Runtime: 01:51:39
Netflix ID: 80231317 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A soccer fan marries his girlfriend in hopes of putting an end to her philandering. But he soon learns she wants to take a second husband.

Year: 2008
IMDb: 5.7
Runtime: 01:59:05
Netflix ID: 80230533 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young artist falls for an aristocratic young woman whose bitter mother has trained her in the art of breaking hearts.

Year: 2016
IMDb: 5.4
Runtime: 02:03:58
Netflix ID: 80099083 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A wealthy woman engages in extramarital affairs that still leave her unhappy. After a mysterious crime occurs, police are called to investigate.

Year: 1992
IMDb: 5.3
Runtime: 02:01:35
Netflix ID: 70057994 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

This sequel to The Blue Lagoon finds the orphaned son of the lovers from the original film stranded on an island with a widow and her daughter.

Year: 1991
IMDb: 5.2
Runtime: 01:41:54
Netflix ID: 60025031 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A newcomer ekes out a living in LA as a professional audience member on infomercials, but life gets complicated when he's thrust into the spotlight.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 5.1
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 80179373 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A young Senegalese-French man from humble roots sets out to climb Mount Everest to impress the woman he loves -- and slowly becomes a media sensation.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 4.7
Runtime: 01:45:08
Netflix ID: 80194671 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

To protect his family from ruin, Yogesh must marry his dream girl in only ten days, so he rushes into dating women with different astrological signs.

Year: 2009
IMDb: 4.6
Runtime: 03:22:43
Netflix ID: 70123118 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Small-town Madhav falls for big-city Riya and wants her to be his girlfriend. But she views their relationship differently, and suggests a compromise.

Year: 2017
IMDb: 4.3
Runtime: 02:09:16
Netflix ID: 80192420 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Four recent college grads dream big and navigate the challenges that come with love, success and their photogenic, cosmopolitan lives in Shanghai.

Year: 2013
IMDb: 3.1
Runtime: 01:50:58
Netflix ID: 70286948 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Shy and timid Yuki finds herself caught between an unattainable love -- and a friendship that might be verging on something more.

Year: 2015
Runtime: 01:20:38
Netflix ID: 80196834 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Yuna wakes up to find the dreamy boy she sees every morning on her commute to school lying next to her. And that's just the beginning of the mystery.

Year: 2015
Runtime: 01:19:26
Netflix ID: 80196835 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

A has-been writer looking for her next hit finds an unexpected connection between a group of women she's been mining for content, and his name is Ito.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 02:06:00
Netflix ID: 80226797 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

After years of marriage and the departure of their son, Yohei and Miyoko face life as a couple for the first time -- a relationship that may not last.

Year: 2016
Runtime: 01:56:51
Netflix ID: 81006638 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb

Entangling the lives of a movie star, a chauffeur, a prostitute and a pimp, this bold drama reveals ugly truths beneath Mumbai’s glitzy veneer.

Year: 2018
Runtime: 01:30:27
Netflix ID: 81018239 · Watch on Netflix · IMDb