Movies About Love and Longing
Kinora's catalogue lists 104 films about love and longing, spanning 1926–2024. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.
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- 1963
8½
Urbandir. Federico Fellini - 2014
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
Urbandir. Ana Lily Amirpour - 1986
A Room with a View
Urban · Ruraldir. James Ivory - 1974
Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
Urbandir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder - 2000
Almost Famous
Urbandir. Cameron Crowe - 2001
Amélie
Urbandir. Jean-Pierre Jeunet - 1977
Annie Hall
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2024
Anora
Urbandir. Sean Baker - 2007
Atonement
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Joe Wright - 1974
Badlands
Rural · Wildernessdir. Terrence Malick - 2013
Before Midnight
Coastal Seadir. Richard Linklater - 1995
Before Sunrise
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 2004
Before Sunset
Urbandir. Richard Linklater - 1967
Belle de Jour
Urbandir. Luis Buñuel - 1967
Bonnie and Clyde
Ruraldir. Arthur Penn - 1999
Boys Don't Cry
Ruraldir. Kimberly Peirce - 1996
Breaking the Waves
Coastal Sea · Ruraldir. Lars von Trier - 1960
Breathless
Urbandir. Jean-Luc Godard - 1945
Brief Encounter
Suburbandir. David Lean - 1938
Bringing Up Baby
Ruraldir. Howard Hawks - 2005
Brokeback Mountain
Rural · Mountaindir. Ang Lee - 1972
Cabaret
Urbandir. Bob Fosse - 2017
Call Me by Your Name
Ruraldir. Luca Guadagnino - 1943
Casablanca
Urbandir. Michael Curtiz - 2016
Certain Women
Ruraldir. Kelly Reichardt - 1964
Charulata
Urbandir. Satyajit Ray - 1994
Chungking Express
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1931
City Lights
Urbandir. Charlie Chaplin - 1994
Clerks
Suburbandir. Kevin Smith - 2018
Cold War
Urban · Ruraldir. Paweł Pawlikowski - 2000
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Mountain · Desertdir. Ang Lee - 1978
Days of Heaven
Ruraldir. Terrence Malick - 2022
Decision to Leave
Urban · Coastal Sea · Mountaindir. Park Chan-wook - 1995
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
Urban · Ruraldir. Aditya Chopra - 2012
Django Unchained
Ruraldir. Quentin Tarantino - 2004
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Urban · Suburbandir. Michel Gondry - 1995
Fallen Angels
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 2023
Fallen Leaves
Urbandir. Aki Kaurismäki - 1993
Farewell My Concubine
Urbandir. Chen Kaige - 1994
Forrest Gump
Rural · Urban · Coastal Seadir. Robert Zemeckis - 1991
Fried Green Tomatoes
Ruraldir. Jon Avnet - 1993
Groundhog Day
Ruraldir. Harold Ramis - 1986
Hannah and Her Sisters
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 1997
Happy Together
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 2013
Her
Urbandir. Spike Jonze - 1959
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Urbandir. Alain Resnais - 2004
Howl's Moving Castle
Ruraldir. Hayao Miyazaki - 2000
In the Mood for Love
Urbandir. Wong Kar-Wai - 1934
It Happened One Night
Urbandir. Frank Capra - 1962
Jules and Jim
Urbandir. François Truffaut - 2007
Juno
Suburbandir. Jason Reitman - 1965
Kwaidan
Rural · Wildernessdir. Masaki Kobayashi - 1960
L'Avventura
Island · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Michelangelo Antonioni - 1960
La Dolce Vita
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Federico Fellini - 2016
La La Land
Urbandir. Damien Chazelle - 2021
Licorice Pizza
Suburbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2003
Lost in Translation
Urbandir. Sofia Coppola - 1979
Manhattan
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2019
Marriage Story
Urbandir. Noah Baumbach - 2016
Maudie
Rural · Coastal Seadir. Aisling Walsh - 1971
McCabe & Mrs. Miller
Rural · Mountaindir. Robert Altman - 2011
Midnight in Paris
Urbandir. Woody Allen - 2016
Moonlight
Urbandir. Barry Jenkins - 2012
Moonrise Kingdom
Island · Wildernessdir. Wes Anderson - 2013
Mud
Rural · Islanddir. Jeff Nichols - 1960
Mughal-e-Azam
Urbandir. K. Asif - 2001
Mulholland Drive
Urbandir. David Lynch - 1946
Notorious
Urbandir. Alfred Hitchcock - 2013
Only Lovers Left Alive
Urbandir. Jim Jarmusch - 2023
Past Lives
Urbandir. Celine Song - 2017
Phantom Thread
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 2019
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Island · Coastal Seadir. Céline Sciamma - 2002
Punch-Drunk Love
Urbandir. Paul Thomas Anderson - 1976
Rocky
Urbandir. John G. Avildsen - 1998
Run Lola Run
Urbandir. Tom Tykwer - 1998
Rushmore
Urbandir. Wes Anderson - 1989
Sea of Love
Urbandir. Harold Becker - 1952
Singin' in the Rain
Urbandir. Gene Kelly - 2008
Slumdog Millionaire
Urbandir. Danny Boyle - 1927
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Rural · Coastal Seadir. F. W. Murnau - 2002
Sweet Home Alabama
Rural · Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Andy Tennant - 2002
Talk to Her
Urbandir. Pedro Almodóvar - 1960
The Apartment
Urbandir. Billy Wilder - 2011
The Artist
Urbandir. Michel Hazanavicius - 2017
The Big Sick
Urbandir. Michael Showalter - 1991
The Double Life of Véronique
Urbandir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 2018
The Favourite
Urbandir. Yorgos Lanthimos - 1926
The General
Ruraldir. Clyde Bruckman - 1967
The Graduate
Suburbandir. Mike Nichols - 2016
The Handmaiden
Ruraldir. Park Chan-wook - 2013
The Lunchbox
Urbandir. Ritesh Batra - 1940
The Philadelphia Story
Suburbandir. George Cukor - 1993
The Piano
Coastal Sea · Wilderness · Ruraldir. Jane Campion - 1939
The Rules of the Game
Rural · Urbandir. Jean Renoir - 2010
The Town
Urbandir. Ben Affleck - 1964
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Coastal Sea · Urbandir. Jacques Demy - 2021
The Worst Person in the World
Urbandir. Joachim Trier - 1994
Three Colors: Red
Urban · Coastal Seadir. Krzysztof Kieślowski - 1997
Titanic
Coastal Seadir. James Cameron - 1993
True Romance
Urbandir. Tony Scott - 2015
Victoria
Urbandir. Sebastian Schipper - 2008
WALL·E
Off World · Wildernessdir. Andrew Stanton - 2021
Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy
Urbandir. Ryusuke Hamaguchi - 1987
Wings of Desire
Urbandir. Wim Wenders
Frequently asked
How many movies are about love and longing?
Kinora's catalogue lists 104 films about love and longing, spanning 1926–2024.
What are some movies about love and longing?
Films about love and longing in our catalogue include 8½ (1963), A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014), A Room with a View (1986), Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974), and Almost Famous (2000).
What is the oldest movie about love and longing?
The General (1926) is the earliest film about love and longing in our catalogue; the most recent is Anora (2024).