2023 Movies : Romance

With Odessa A’zion • Ron Livingston • Maia Mitchell • Martha Kelly • Bette Midler • Yara Shahidi • Rish Shah • Navid Negahban • Trish Sie • Adina Porter • Will Ropp • Aaron Dominguez • Audrey Shulman • Simone Recasner • Charlie Morgan Patton

Based on a true story, Sitting in Bars with Cake follows a quiet young woman who is unlucky in love and discovers an unlikely guy magnet when she bakes a cake for her best friend’s birthday and brings it to a bar, only to be swarmed by men. She believes it’s a fluke, but her friend convinces her to commit to a year of baking cakes and bringing them to bars, with the goal of finding true love.

With Hero Fiennes Tiffin • Josephine Langford • Stephen Moyer • Louise Lombard • Castille Landon • Benjamin Mascolo • Mimi Keene

The fifth and final instalment of the After franchise finds Hardin struggling to move forward. Besieged by writer’s block and the crushing breakup with Tessa, Hardin travels to Portugal in search of a woman he wronged in the past – and to find himself. Hoping to win back Tessa, he realises he needs to change his ways before he can make the ultimate commitment.

With Ben Hardy • Jameela Jamil • Haley Lu Richardson • Vanessa Caswill • Matt Kaplan • Mark Lane • Rob Delaney • Sally Phillips • Matthew Janzen • Katie Lovejoy • Jennifer E. Smith • Max Siemers • Christopher Foss

After missing her flight from New York to London, Hadley (Haley Lu Richardson) meets Oliver (Ben Hardy) in a chance encounter at the airport that sparks an instant connection. A long night on the plane together passes in the blink of an eye but upon landing at Heathrow, the pair are separated and finding each other in the chaos seems impossible. Will fate intervene to transform these seat mates into soul mates?

With Greta Lee • John Magaro • Celine Song • Teo Yoo • Jojo T. Gibbs

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

With James Cosmo • Klaus Härö • Catherine Walker • Bríd Brennan

Howard (James Cosmo) is a widowed sailor living alone on the coast of Ireland and struggling to care for himself. His daughter, Grace (Catherine Walker), hires Annie (Bríd Brennan) to help out around the house. Though Howard initially rejects this imposition, Annie’s charm and gentle care win him over, and the two fall in love. Annie’s large and loving family welcomes Howard into their lives, but these new relationships only serve to illuminate the depth of pain and hurt between Howard and Grace, who is facing challenges of her own. Grace’s resentment tears at Howard and Annie’s otherwise idyllic seaside love story. This windswept drama deftly balances a universal family saga with a tender and timeless romance.

With Heather Graham • Mya Jo Williams • Claiborne Walsh • LaShoundra Young • Abby Mannich • Olivia Ogletree

If you were given the chance to bring your fantasy love story to life on TV, how would it look? Would it be a picture-perfect fairy tale or something a bit messier? This uniquely unscripted romantic series follows five women at different stages in their lives as they experience reimagined romance in the picturesque small town of Fairhope, Alabama, a tight-knit community where everyone knows everyone else’s business and matters of the heart matter most. In “Love in Fairhope," real people star in a story inspired by their own where fantasy and reality collide.

With Roy Billing • Joshua Sasse • Adrian Powers • Delta Goodrem • Steph Tisdell • Simon Brook McLachlan • Daniela Pizzirani

Delta Goodrem leads as a fiercely independent pilot fighting to keep her family business afloat when she starts to fall for the man sent by corporate to ground her operation forever.

With Cassandra Scerbo • Cedric the Entertainer • Austin Highsmith Garces • Jonathan Bennett • Erik White • Danny Roth • Cathy Shim • Brendan Bradley • Ashanti • Danny Chan • Jonathan Stoddard • Michelle Hurd • B.J. Britt • Julissa Bermudez • Wesley Armstrong

Lizzie (Ashanti) is looking to have the perfect destination wedding thanks to her doting father (Cedric the Entertainer). But her carefully laid plans are thrown into disarray when her "man-of-honor", Marshall (Jonathan Bennett), brings his "ex-from-hell", Marie. It is going to take an all-out effort from Lizzie's friends and family to keep Lizzie from losing her mind as her "happily ever after" is faced with ruin. THE PLUS ONE is an uproarious and charming romantic comedy.