#1 A Walk To Remember (2002 film)
is an American coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Adam Shankman and written by Karen Janszen, based on Nicholas Sparks' 1999 novel of the same name. It stars Shane West, Mandy Moore, Peter Coyote and Daryl Hannah, and was produced by Denise Di Novi and Hunt Lowry for Warner Bros. Pictures. While acting in a school play, Landon, a popular student, falls in love with Jamie, a reverend's daughter. Just as they overcome their different backgrounds, a secret threatens to end their love.
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#2 Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind (2004 film)
is an American science fiction romantic drama film directed by Michel Gondry based on Charlie Kaufman's screenplay, and a story by Michel Gondry, Kaufman, and Pierre Bismuth. The film stars Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as the protagonists. The movie follows two individuals who undergo a procedure to erase each other from their memories following the dissolution of their relationship. The title of the film is a quotation from the 1717 poem Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope. It uses elements of psychological drama, science fiction, and a nonlinear narrative to explore the nature of memory and love.
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#3 The Notebook (2004 film)
is an American romantic drama film directed by Nick Cassavetes, from a screenplay by Jeremy Leven and Jan Sardi, and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The film stars Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams as a young couple who fall in love in the 1940s. Their story is read from a notebook in the present day by an elderly man, telling the tale to a fellow nursing home resident.
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#4 P.S I Love You (2007 film)
is an American romantic film directed by Richard LaGravenese from a screenplay by LaGravenese and Steven Rogers based on the 2004 novel of the same name by Cecelia Ahern. The film stars Hilary Swank and Gerard Butler in the lead roles. Holly Kennedy receives letters from her late husband that bring her hope, strength and inspiration and make her feel as if he is standing by her side each step of the way.
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#5 The Fault In Our Stars (2014 film)
is an American coming-of-age romance film directed by Josh Boone from a screenplay by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the 2012 novel of the same name by John Green. The film stars Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort as the protagonists. The story centers on a sixteen-year-old cancer patient, played by Woodley, forced by her parents to attend a support group, where she meets and subsequently falls in love with another cancer patient, played by Elgort.
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#6 Me Before You (2016 film)
is a romance drama film directed by Thea Sharrock in her directorial debut and adapted by author Jojo Moyes from her 2012 novel of the same name. The film stars Emilia Clarke and Sam Claflin as the protagonists. Louisa Clark accepts the job of being a caretaker of Will Traynor, a rigid man who has paralysis. However, her life transforms as the two, gradually, form a bond and later fall in love.
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#7 La La Land (2016 film)
is an American musical romantic drama written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone as a struggling jazz pianist and an aspiring actress respectively, who meet and fall in love while pursuing their dreams in Los Angeles. They find themselves torn between their love for each other and their careers.
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#8 Call Me By Your Name (2017 film)
is a coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by Luca Guadagnino. Its screenplay, by James Ivory, who also co-produced, is based on the 2007 novel of the same title by André Aciman. The film is the final installment in Guadagnino's thematic "Desire" trilogy, after I Am Love (2009), and A Bigger Splash (2015). Set in 1983 in northern Italy, the movie chronicles the romantic relationship between a 17-year-old, Elio Perlman (Timothée Chalamet), and Oliver (Armie Hammer), a 24-year-old graduate-student assistant to Elio's father, an archaeology professor.
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#9 Midnight Sun (2018 film)
is an American romantic drama film based on the 2006 Japanese film A Song to the Sun. The film was directed by Scott Speer and written by Eric Kirsten, and stars Bella Thorne, Patrick Schwarzenegger, and Rob Riggle. The story is about a teenage girl with xeroderma pigmentosum, a medical condition which prevents her from going out into sunlight. When she meets a boy, she struggles to decide whether to tell him about her condition or pretend to live a normal life. Just when she starts living her dreams, her condition starts worsening and keeping it a secret becomes that much harder.