Who doesn’t love a sexy movie to raise the body heat, get the heart pumping, and create all the sexual tension for a hot date night with your lover? This list of the hottest romance movies in 2024 will get your attention. Not only do they include some steamy scenes, but also a love story that will warm the heart. Check out this collection of 30+ of the best and hottest romance movies 2024 to watch with your loved one.
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Hottest Romance Movies 2023
Brokeback Mountain (2005)
Plot: In 1963, rodeo cowboy Jack Twist and ranch hand Ennis Del Mar are hired by rancher Joe Aguirre as sheep herders in Wyoming. One night on Brokeback Mountain, Jack makes a drunken pass at Ennis that is eventually reciprocated. Though Ennis marries his longtime sweetheart, Alma, and Jack marries a fellow rodeo rider, the two men keep up their tortured and sporadic affair over the course of 20 years.
Star Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Heath Ledger, Randy Quaid, Michelle Williams, Anne Hathaway
9 1/2 Weeks (1986)
Plot: Two strangers in New York City, Wall Street trader John and art gallery assistant Elizabeth, become involved in a new relationship. What begins as a courtship, though, becomes extremely sexual, as John begins to push for more daring and kinky scenarios, including striptease and bondage. Although their passion is strong, Elizabeth starts to realize that John is not sharing any part of his life besides sex. She must make a decision about what she wants from their relationship.
Star Cast: Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Margaret Whitton
Dirty Dancing (1987)
Plot: Baby is one listless summer away from the Peace Corps. Hoping to enjoy her youth while it lasts, she’s disappointed when her summer plans deposit her at a sleepy resort in the Catskills with her parents. Her luck turns around, however, when the resort’s dance instructor, Johnny, enlists Baby as his new partner, and the two fall in love. Baby’s father forbids her from seeing Johnny, but she’s determined to help him perform the last big dance of the summer.
Star Cast: Jennifer Grey, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Rhodes
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Plot: After Dr. Bill Hartford’s wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings — and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
Star Cast: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Plot: When college senior Anastasia Steele steps in for her sick roommate to interview prominent businessman Christian Grey for their campus paper, little does she realize the path her life will take. Christian, as enigmatic as he is rich and powerful, finds himself strangely drawn to Ana, and she to him. Though sexually inexperienced, Ana plunges headlong into an affair — and learns that Christian’s true sexual proclivities push the boundaries of pain and pleasure.
Star Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Luke Grimes
Deep Water (2022)
Plot: A well-to-do husband who allows his wife to have affairs in order to avoid a divorce becomes a prime suspect in the disappearance of her lovers. Movie based on the Patricia Highsmith novel.
Star Cast: Ben Affleck, Ana de Armas, Jacob Elordi
Malcolm & Marie (2021)
Plot: A filmmaker on the brink of Hollywood glory and his girlfriend, whose story made his career, find themselves pushed towards a reckoning as a single tumultuous night decides the fate of their relationship.
Star Cast: John David Washington, Zendaya
Cruel Intentions (1999)
Plot: Annette unwittingly becomes a pawn in Sebastian’s and Kathryn’s deliciously diabolical wager of sexual conquest when she writes an article in Seventeen Magazine about how she intends to stay pure until she marries her boyfriend. However, Sebastian gets more than he bargained for as he attempts to woo Annette into his bed.
Star Cast: Reese Witherspoon, Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Michelle Gellar
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Plot: For Dan Gallagher, life is good. He is on the rise at his New York law firm, is happily married to his wife, Beth (Anne Archer), and has a loving daughter. But, after a casual fling with a sultry book editor named Alex, everything changes. Jilted by Dan, Alex becomes unstable, her behavior escalating from aggressive pursuit to obsessive stalking. Dan realizes that his main problem is not hiding his affair, but rather saving himself and his family.
Star Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Unfaithful (2002)
Plot: Described by director Adrian Lyne (“Fatal Attraction”) as “an erotic thriller about the body language of guilt.” When married couple Edward innocently learns that his wife Connie has lied to him about an affair, suspicion propels him to uncover the devastating details of her infidelity. Tormented by the knowledge, he confronts her lover, only to discover a level of rage within himself that he could never have imagined.
Star Cast: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Oliver Martinez
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (2005)
Plot: John and Jane Smith, a couple in a stagnating marriage, live a deceptively mundane existence. However, each has been hiding a secret from the other: they are assassins working for adversarial agencies. When they are both assigned to kill the same target, Benjamin Danz, the truth comes to the surface. Finally free from their cover stories, they discover that they have been assigned to kill each other, sparking a series of explosive attacks.
Star Cast: Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, Adam Brody
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Disobedience (2017)
Plot: New York photographer Ronit Krushka flies to London after learning about the death of her estranged father. Ronit is returning to the same Orthodox Jewish community that shunned her decades earlier for her childhood attraction to Esti, a female friend. Their fortuitous and happy reunion soon reignites their burning passion as the two women explore boundaries of faith and sexuality.
Star Cast: Rachel McAdams, Rachel Weisz, Eliot Alderman
Blue Valentine (2010)
Plot: Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. To the casual observer, everything appears normal, if a bit subdued. But a closer examination reveals a couple caught in a downward spiral. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.
Star Cast: Ryan Gosling, Michelle Williams, Mike Vogel
The Notebook (2004)
Plot: In 1940s South Carolina, mill worker Noah Calhoun and rich girl Allie are desperately in love. But her parents don’t approve. When Noah goes off to serve in World War II, it seems to mark the end of their love affair. In the interim, Allie becomes involved with another man. But when Noah returns to their small town years later, on the cusp of Allie’s marriage, it soon becomes clear that their romance is anything but over.
Star Cast: Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Marsden
After (2019)
Plot: Tessa Young is a dedicated student, dutiful daughter and loyal girlfriend to her high school sweetheart. Entering her first semester of college, Tessa’s guarded world opens up when she meets Hardin Scott, a mysterious and brooding rebel who makes her question all she thought she knew about herself — and what she wants out of life.
Star Cast: Josephine Langford, Hero Fiennes, Selma Blair
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Plot: Baz Luhrmann helped adapt this classic Shakespearean romantic tragedy for the screen, updating the setting to a post-modern city named Verona Beach. In this version, the Capulets and the Montagues are two rival gangs. Juliet is attending a costume ball thrown by her parents. Her father Fulgencio Capulet has arranged her marriage to the boorish Paris as part of a strategic investment plan. Romeo attends the masked ball and he and Juliet fall in love, a forbidden love.
Star Cast: Claire Danes, Paul Sorvino, Paul Rudd
Always Be My Maybe (2019)
Plot: Childhood sweethearts have a falling out and don’t speak for 15 years, only reconnecting as adults when Sasha runs into Marcus in San Francisco. Although the old sparks are still there, the couple live in different worlds.
Star Cast: Keanu Reeves, Ali Wong, Randall Park
Blue Is The Warmest Color (2013)
Plot: A French film of a teen who forms a deep emotional and sexual connection with an older art student she met in a lesbian bar.
Star Cast: Adèle Exarchopoulos, Léa Seydoux, Jérémie Laheurte
The Fault In Our Stars (2014)
Plot: Hazel Grace Lancaster, a 16-year-old cancer patient, meets and falls in love with Gus Waters, a similarly afflicted teen from her cancer support group. Hazel feels that Gus really understands her. They both share the same acerbic wit and a love of books, especially Grace’s touchstone, “An Imperial Affliction” by Peter Van Houten. When Gus scores an invitation to meet the reclusive author, he and Hazel embark on the adventure of their brief lives.
Star Cast: Shailene Woodley, Ansel Elgort, John Green
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Boogie Nights (1997)
Plot: In the San Fernando Valley in 1977, teenage busboy Eddie Adams gets discovered by porn director Jack Horner, who transforms him into adult-film sensation Dirk Diggler. Brought into a supportive circle of friends, including fellow actors Amber Waves, Rollergirl and Reed Rothchild, Dirk fulfills all his ambitions, but a toxic combination of drugs and egotism threatens to take him back down.
Star Cast: Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Burt Reynolds, Heather Graham, John C. Reilly
Love & Basketball (2000)
Plot: Monica and Quincy are two childhood friends who both aspire to be professional basketball players. Quincy, whose father, Zeke, plays for the Los Angeles Clippers, is a natural talent and a born leader. Monica is ferociously competitive but sometimes becomes overly emotional on the court. Over the years, the two begin to fall for each other, but their separate paths to basketball stardom threaten to pull them apart.
Star Cast: Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, Dennis Haysbert
Atonement (2007)
Plot: This sweeping English drama, based on the book by Ian McEwan, follows the lives of young lovers Cecilia Tallis and Robbie Turner. When the couple are torn apart by a lie constructed by Cecilia’s jealous younger sister, Briony, all three of them must deal with the consequences. Robbie is the hardest hit, since Briony’s deception results in his imprisonment, but hope for Cecilia and her beau increases when their paths cross during World War II.
Star Cast: Keira Knightley, James McAvoy, Saoirse Ronan
Don Jon (2013)
Plot: New Jersey bartender Jon Martello knows what’s important: his friends, his family, his car, his church, his sexual conquests — and porn. In fact, Jon is a porn addict and has never had a genuine relationship with a woman. However, when he meets Barbara he has to change his operating methods, because Barbara won’t be bedded easily. For the first time in his life, Jon begins a real courtship, but his obsession with erotica threatens to ruin everything.
Star Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mia Malkova
Secretary (2002)
Plot: Lee Holloway, a young woman with a history of severe emotional problems, is released into the care of her overbearing parents following a stay at a mental institution. She finds work as a secretary for a rigid and demanding attorney, E. Edward Grey, and starts dating the kind but dull Peter. However, Lee soon realizes she’s turned on by Grey’s stern demeanor, and begins a sadomasochistic relationship with him.
Star Cast: Maggie Gyllenhaal, James Spader, Jeremy Davies
Y Tu Mana Tambien (2001)
Plot: The lives of Julio and Tenoch, like those of 17-year old boys everywhere, are ruled by raging hormones, intense friendships, and a headlong rush into adulthood. Over the course of a summer, the two best friends, while living out a carefree cross-country road trip with a gorgeous older woman, also find connection with each other, themselves and the world around them.
Star Cast: Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, Maribel Verdú
Poor Things (2023)
Plot: Brought back to life by an unorthodox scientist, a young woman runs off with a lawyer on a whirlwind adventure across the continents. Free from the prejudices of her times, she grows steadfast in her purpose to stand for equality and liberation.
Star Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe
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The Piano (1993)
Plot: After a long voyage from Scotland, pianist Ada McGrath and her young daughter, Flora, are left with all their belongings, including a piano, on a New Zealand beach. Ada, who has been mute since childhood, has been sold into an arranged marriage to a local man named Alisdair Stewart. Making little attempt to warm up to Alisdair, Ada soon becomes intrigued by his Maori-friendly acquaintance, George Baines, leading to tense, life-altering conflicts.
Star Cast: Holly Hunter, Anna Paquin, Sam Neill, Harvey Keitel
365 Days (2020)
Plot: Massimo is a member of the Sicilian Mafia family and Laura is a sales director. She does not expect that on a trip to Sicily trying to save her relationship, Massimo will kidnap her and give her 365 days to fall in love with him.
Star Cast: Michele Morrone, Anna-Maria Sieklucka, Simone Susinna
Basic Instinct (1992)
Plot: The mysterious Catherine Tramell, a beautiful crime novelist, becomes a suspect when she is linked to the brutal death of a rock star. Investigated by homicide detective Nick Curran, Catherine seduces him into an intense relationship. Meanwhile, the murder case becomes increasingly complicated when more seemingly connected deaths occur and Nick’s psychologist and lover, Beth Garner, appears to be another suspect.
Star Cast: Sharon Stone, Michael Douglas, Jeanne Tripplehorn
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (2022)
Plot: After falling out of love with her husband following a war injury, Lady Chatterley pursues a torrid affair with the gamekeeper on their estate and begins to uncover her own internal biases.
Star Cast: Emma Corrin, Jack O’Connell, Ella Hunt
Indecent Proposal (1993)
Plot: David and Diana Murphy are a loving couple with a bright future. David is a talented architect; Diana is a top-notch real estate agent. But when the recession hits, their finances take a nosedive. In a last-ditch effort to save their dream home, they head to Las Vegas to win their mortgage money gambling. After they lose everything, a mysterious billionaire offers the solution to their money problems: $1 million — if he can sleep with Diana.
Star Cast: Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore, Robert Redford