From the heart-wrenching Portrait of a Lady on Fire to the feel-good Love & Basketball, these are the best romance movies directed by women.

Romance cinema has found itself once again reaching new heights in 2025. With multiple films delivering emotionally rich and even culturally resonant content, the genre is as loved as ever. Some of ...

Is there any other genre as alchemically enmeshed with the very nature of cinema as romance films? With all due respect to all the great movies that set out to make us laugh, scare us witless, rile us ...