The best romantic movies to watch in 2026 span a remarkable range — from films made in 1942 that still hold up on 4K streams to A24 originals from November 2025 that redefined what a modern rom-com could be. This guide is organized as a practical watchlist: timeless classics worth (re)discovering, the strongest romantic films from 2025 that are now streaming, India’s finest romantic cinema with verified OTT platforms, and the 2026 releases worth marking your calendar for.
Every film in this guide has a verified IMDb score, a confirmed OTT platform for Indian audiences where applicable, and an honest critical assessment. The original version of this article left the 2025 and 2026 sections entirely empty — this guide fills them properly.
Quick Reference: Best Romantic Movies to Watch in 2026
| Film | Year | IMDb | RT | OTT Platform (India) |
| Materialists | 2025 | 6.2 | 76% | Max (India) |
| Eternity | 2025 | 6.9 | 76% | Apple TV+ |
| Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy | 2025 | 6.3 | 74% | Prime Video India |
| Sita Ramam | 2022 | 8.4 | — | JioCinema |
| Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (DDLJ) | 1995 | 8.1 | 89% | Netflix India |
| Before Sunrise | 1995 | 8.1 | 100% | Netflix India |
| The Notebook | 2004 | 7.8 | 53% | Netflix India |
| Pride & Prejudice | 2005 | 7.8 | 85% | Netflix India |
| Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam | 1999 | 7.6 | — | JioCinema |
| Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind | 2004 | 8.3 | 92% | Prime Video India |
| In the Mood for Love | 2000 | 8.1 | 93% | MUBI India |
| Casablanca | 1942 | 8.5 | 99% | Prime Video India |
Part One: The 2025 Films — Now Streaming
Materialists (2025) — The Year’s Sharpest Romantic Film
Director / Writer: Celine Song (Past Lives, 2023 — Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Original Screenplay) Cast: Dakota Johnson (Lucy Mason), Pedro Pascal (Harry), Chris Evans (John), Zoë Winters, Marin Ireland, Dasha Nekrasova, Louisa Jacobson Studio / Distributor: A24 (US) / Sony Pictures International Music: Daniel Pemberton | Cinematography: Shabier Kirchner Release: June 13, 2025 (theatrical US) / August 16, 2025 (international) Runtime: 116 minutes | Rating: R OTT (India): Max India (streaming) OTT (US): Max IMDb: 6.2/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 76% critics / 61% audience Box Office: $108 million worldwide on a $20 million budget — a profitable A24 romance
What It Is
Lucy Mason (Dakota Johnson) is a successful New York City matchmaker who has helped dozens of wealthy clients find love — while managing her own complicated romantic life. She is torn between Harry (Pedro Pascal), a handsome, impossibly wealthy private equity broker who is everything she has told her clients to want in a partner, and John (Chris Evans), her imperfect, broke ex-boyfriend who is now an aspiring theatre actor with no money and nothing to offer except the fact that she has never stopped thinking about him.
Celine Song’s second feature after Past Lives is more commercially accessible than her debut but no less intelligent. The film’s central argument — that modern dating culture has turned love into a commodity, with people optimising for wealth, appearance, and status rather than actual compatibility — is built into the story’s structure. Lucy is the film’s diagnostician of a broken system, and also its most instructive example of how that broken system infects even people who should know better.
The film puts a magnifying glass to uncomfortable realities, like the high and precise standards that make people carry a certain type of price tag on their backs. Variety’s Owen Gleiberman described it as “like ‘Sex and the City’ directed by Eric Rohmer” — a film that looks like a commercial rom-com and functions as something considerably more searching. Chris Evans is wide awake, with an anger that just makes his tenderness more appealing, and Pedro Pascal is note-perfect as a character who comes off as the film’s equivalent of Mr. Big.
The Honest Critical Picture
The 76% RT / 6.2 IMDb gap is real and documented. The critical praise is consistent: Celine Song’s writing, Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal’s performances, and the film’s social commentary. The audience divide reflects what critics also noted — the film deliberately withholds the warmth of a conventional rom-com resolution, which is either the point or a flaw depending on what you came for. Materialists is more like a beguiling contradiction — a rom-com played straight.
Our Verdict: 7.5/10 — The best romantic film of 2025 for viewers who want their love stories to carry actual ideas. The A24 branding is appropriate: this is the thinking person’s romantic comedy of the year.
Watch if: You loved Past Lives, you want a romance that critiques the culture it’s set in, or you want to watch Chris Evans and Pedro Pascal compete for the same woman. Skip if: You want warmth, comfort, and a conventional happy ending without complication.
Eternity (2025) — The Year’s Most Emotionally Generous Romance
Director / Co-Writer: David Freyne | Co-Writer: Pat Cunnane (script appeared on 2022 Black List) Cast: Elizabeth Olsen (Joan), Miles Teller (Larry), Callum Turner (Luke), Da’Vine Joy Randolph, John Early, Olga Merediz Studio / Distributor: A24 Executive Producers: Elizabeth Olsen and Miles Teller Music: David Fleming Release: September 7, 2025 (TIFF world premiere) / November 26, 2025 (US theatrical) Runtime: 114 minutes | Rating: PG-13 OTT (India): Apple TV+ IMDb: 6.9/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 76% critics / 91% audience (significant gap — audience far warmer than critics) TIFF debut RT score: 100% from 11 reviews
What It Is
Joan (Elizabeth Olsen) and Larry (Miles Teller) are an argumentative, loving elderly couple married for 65 years. Joan has terminal cancer, which they have kept secret. When Joan dies and arrives in the afterlife, she discovers she has one week to make a decision: spend eternity with Larry — the man she built a life with across six decades — or with Luke (Callum Turner), her first husband, who died young in the Korean War and has been waiting for her ever since.
The film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 7, 2025, and was theatrically released in the United States by A24 on November 26, 2025. It received positive reviews from critics. The script by Pat Cunnane was one of Hollywood’s most coveted unproduced screenplays — it appeared on The Black List (the annual survey of the best unproduced scripts in Hollywood) in 2022 before A24 acquired it in 2024.
The premise draws comparison to classic afterlife films (Defending Your Life, Heaven Can Wait) but the emotional weight is entirely its own — Olsen playing a woman who genuinely, completely loved both men, and the film refusing to present either choice as wrong. A spiritual rom-com that balances absurdity and sincerity with impressive poise. Elizabeth Olsen shines as a woman caught between two great loves, with Miles Teller and Callum Turner delivering strong turns as her equally compelling suitors.
The 91% audience score versus 76% critics score is the real story of Eternity’s reception. Critics found the runtime slightly indulgent; audiences found it exactly as long as it needed to be. Da’Vine Joy Randolph — Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner for The Holdovers (2024) — appears in a supporting role that generated its own critical attention.
Our Verdict: 8/10 — The most emotionally generous romantic film of 2025. If you watch one romance from last year, make it this one. The premise sounds gimmicky; the execution is genuinely moving.
Watch if: You want a romance that asks real questions about commitment, longing, and what love means across a lifetime. Also: if the 91% audience score means more to you than the 76% critics score, trust the audience on this one. Skip if: You need a conventional happy ending with no ambiguity.
Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (2025)
Director: Michael Morris | Based on: Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy novel by Helen Fielding (2013) Cast: Renée Zellweger (Bridget Jones), Leo Woodall (Roxster), Colin Firth (Mark Darcy — briefly), Hugh Grant (Daniel Cleaver), Chiwetel Ejiofor (Mr. Wallaker), Jim Broadbent, Gemma Jones, Isla Fisher Release: February 13, 2025 (Peacock US) / Prime Video International (India) Runtime: 128 minutes OTT (India): Prime Video India IMDb: 6.3/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 74% critics
What It Is
The fourth Bridget Jones film — and the most emotionally bold. Mad About the Boy opens with Bridget as a recently widowed mother of two young children: Mark Darcy (Colin Firth) has died. The film does not dwell on this — it is the established context, not the plot. Bridget, now in her early fifties, is navigating single motherhood, the chaos of co-parenting, and the terrifying, hilarious process of dating again after decades.
Leo Woodall (The White Lotus Season 2) plays Roxster, a significantly younger man who enters Bridget’s life with uncomplicated enthusiasm. Chiwetel Ejiofor plays Mr. Wallaker, her children’s schoolteacher — a more age-appropriate, emotionally complicated possibility. Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver returns, now older and somehow more ridiculous, in what critics described as his funniest performance in the franchise.
Renée Zellweger received unanimous critical praise — the character is older, the humour is warmer, and the emotional stakes (a widow rediscovering herself rather than a singleton finding a boyfriend) give the film genuine depth the first two entries didn’t always have.
Our Verdict: 7.5/10 — The best Bridget Jones film since the original. Genuinely funny, genuinely moving, and Zellweger is extraordinary.
Watch if: You are a Bridget Jones fan, or you want a romantic comedy that handles grief and middle-age with actual intelligence. Available on Prime Video India. Watch the earlier films first: Bridget Jones’s Diary (2001) and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (2004) are both on Prime Video India.
Part Two: Indian Romantic Cinema — The Essential Watchlist for 2026
This section was entirely absent from the original article on this page. For an Indian entertainment site, that omission is significant — Indian romantic cinema has produced some of the finest love stories in film history. Here are the essential picks, with verified OTT platforms.
Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge / DDLJ (1995) — Netflix India
Director: Aditya Chopra (his debut film — still his only directorial credit) Cast: Shah Rukh Khan (Raj), Kajol (Simran), Amrish Puri, Farida Jalal Music: Jatin-Lalit (songs), Lata Mangeshkar, Udit Narayan IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 89% OTT: Netflix India (Hindi, with English subtitles) Awards: 10 Filmfare Awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor (SRK), Best Actress (Kajol)
DDLJ ran continuously at Mumbai’s Maratha Mandir cinema for over 25 years — the longest theatrical run in cinema history. It is the defining text of modern Bollywood romance: Raj (Shah Rukh Khan), a charming NRI, meets Simran (Kajol) on a Eurotrip. They fall in love. Her father has arranged her marriage back in Punjab. Raj follows her — not to elope, but to win her family’s blessing. The film’s central philosophy, stated directly in Amrish Puri’s final scene, is that love earns its right through respect and patience.
SRK’s Raj set the template for the Bollywood romantic hero for the following decade. Kajol’s Simran — simultaneously bound by family duty and fiercely in love — gave the heroine an interior life that previous romantic leads rarely received. The music (Tujhe Dekha Toh, Mehndi Laga Ke Rakhna, Mere Khwabon Mein) remains among the most-played Bollywood soundtrack of all time.
Watch if: You have somehow not seen it. If you have, rewatch it — it holds up more completely than almost any Indian film of its era.
Sita Ramam (2022) — JioCinema
Director: Hanu Raghavapudi | Producer: Vyjayanthi Movies Cast: Dulquer Salmaan (Lt. Ram), Mrunal Thakur (Sita Mahalakshmi), Rashmika Mandanna (Afreen), Sumanth Music: Vishal Chandrasekhar | Language: Telugu (Hindi dub available on JioCinema) IMDb: 8.4/10 OTT: JioCinema (Telugu and Hindi versions) Box Office: ₹73 crore worldwide on ₹50 crore budget
Sita Ramam is a period romance set in 1964 and 1984 simultaneously — a Kashmir love story between an army officer (Dulquer Salmaan’s Lt. Ram) and a woman (Mrunal Thakur’s Sita) told through letters, framed by a mission in 1984 in which Sita’s granddaughter tries to deliver a letter that was never received. The framing device is elegant: the entire love story is told in retrospect, which gives every romantic scene the weight of something that mattered enormously to someone across decades.
Dulquer Salmaan’s Lt. Ram — gentle, principled, and completely in love — is one of the finest romantic performances in South Indian cinema of the 2020s. Mrunal Thakur received critical acclaim as Sita. The Hindi dub is high quality and fully accessible. The film’s 8.4 IMDb score reflects genuine audience love rather than hype.
Watch if: You want the finest South Indian romantic film available on OTT in 2026. The period setting, the framing narrative, and the emotional payoff make it unlike anything else currently streaming.
Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) — JioCinema
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali Cast: Salman Khan (Vanraj), Aishwarya Rai Bachchan (Nandini), Ajay Devgn (Sameer) Music: Ismail Darbar | IMDb: 7.6/10 OTT: JioCinema
Bhansali’s most emotionally complex romantic film — a story about a man (Ajay Devgn’s Vanraj) who discovers his wife (Nandini) is in love with another man (Salman Khan’s Sameer) and chooses, out of love for her, to help her find him. The film’s moral architecture is genuinely unusual for Bollywood: the husband is the moral centre, the love triangle resolves not through the expected formula but through an act of extraordinary selflessness.
Aishwarya Rai Bachchan won the National Film Award for Best Actress. The film’s Rajasthani music and folk dance sequences (Dholi Taro, Aankhon Ki Gustakhiyan) remain among the finest in Bollywood. On JioCinema.
Dil Chahta Hai (2001) — Netflix India
Director: Farhan Akhtar (his debut) Cast: Aamir Khan (Akash), Saif Ali Khan (Sameer), Akshaye Khanna (Siddharth), Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, Dimple Kapadia Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | IMDb: 8.1/10 OTT: Netflix India (Hindi)
Dil Chahta Hai changed Bollywood. Three friends in their twenties, each with a different relationship to love — the commitment-phobe, the hopeless romantic, the quietly deep one — encounter women who redefine their understanding of themselves. Farhan Akhtar’s debut was a cultural reset: the characters dressed like real young Indians of 2001, spoke like them, and their emotional lives were written with specificity that Bollywood romance had rarely attempted.
The Akshaye Khanna / Dimple Kapadia storyline — where a 25-year-old falls genuinely in love with a 40-year-old woman — is still the most unusually written romantic arc in mainstream Hindi cinema of its decade. On Netflix India.
Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003) — Netflix India
Director: Nikkhil Advani | Producer / Story: Karan Johar Cast: Shah Rukh Khan (Aman), Saif Ali Khan (Rohit), Preity Zinta (Naina), Jaya Bachchan Music: Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy | IMDb: 7.8/10 OTT: Netflix India
A film that combines a love triangle with a terminal illness — Aman (Shah Rukh Khan) knows he is dying and spends his time engineering a relationship between Naina (Preity Zinta) and Rohit (Saif Ali Khan) because he cannot be the one to give her a life. SRK’s performance is the finest romantic turn of his 2000s peak. The title song and It’s the Time to Disco remain permanently lodged in Indian cultural memory. On Netflix India.
Jab We Met (2007) — Netflix India
Director: Imtiaz Ali Cast: Shahid Kapoor (Aditya), Kareena Kapoor Khan (Geet) Music: Pritam | IMDb: 7.9/10 OTT: Netflix India
Imtiaz Ali’s finest film and the definitive Bollywood road-trip romance. Geet (Kareena Kapoor Khan, in the best performance of her career) is one of Hindi cinema’s most fully realised heroines — confident, chaotic, unstoppable, and completely herself. The film’s emotional intelligence is in how it lets both characters be changed by each other without either becoming a lesser version of themselves. On Netflix India.
Part Three: Hollywood Classics — With Verified Streaming Platforms
Before Sunrise (1995) / Before Sunset (2004) / Before Midnight (2013) — Netflix India
Director: Richard Linklater | Cast: Ethan Hawke (Jesse), Julie Delpy (Céline) IMDb: Before Sunrise 8.1 / Before Sunset 8.1 / Before Midnight 7.9 Rotten Tomatoes: Before Sunrise 100% / Before Sunset 95% / Before Midnight 98% OTT: Netflix India (all three films)
The Before trilogy is the most acclaimed romantic series in American cinema. Two people — American Jesse and French Céline — meet on a train and spend a night in Vienna talking. The sequel catches them nine years later in Paris. The third film finds them in Greece, married, with children, fighting. The trilogy covers the entire arc of a relationship across three films and eighteen years of real time — each film made nine years after the last, with the actors genuinely ageing alongside their characters.
Before Sunrise’s 100% Rotten Tomatoes score is not an accident. Linklater and his cast built a film that feels like eavesdropping on two real people falling genuinely in love. Watch all three together for the complete emotional experience.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) — Prime Video India
Director: Michel Gondry | Writer: Charlie Kaufman Cast: Jim Carrey (Joel), Kate Winslet (Clementine), Kirsten Dunst, Mark Ruffalo, Elijah Wood IMDb: 8.3/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 92% OTT: Prime Video India
Joel (Jim Carrey, in the most restrained performance of his career) discovers that his ex-girlfriend Clementine (Kate Winslet) had him erased from her memory using a medical procedure. He undergoes the same procedure — then changes his mind mid-erasure and tries to preserve every memory he has of her even as they are being deleted. Charlie Kaufman’s script is the most structurally original romance ever written for mainstream cinema. The question it poses — whether you would choose the pain of loving someone over the peace of not knowing them — is answered by the film’s final scene in a way that is both devastating and honest.
In the Mood for Love (2000) — MUBI India
Director / Writer: Wong Kar-wai Cast: Tony Leung (Mr. Chow), Maggie Cheung (Mrs. Chan) IMDb: 8.1/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 93% OTT: MUBI India
Two neighbours in 1962 Hong Kong discover their spouses are having affairs with each other. They begin meeting — first to understand what their spouses might have said to each other, then because proximity and loneliness become something else. Wong Kar-wai shoots in slow-motion close-ups, with Maggie Cheung’s qipaos and Nat King Cole songs in Spanish. Almost nothing happens by plot standards. Everything happens by emotional standards. The film’s unspoken tension — two people who want each other and don’t act on it — is the finest example in cinema of restraint as expression.
Pride & Prejudice (2005) — Netflix India
Director: Joe Wright | Based on: Jane Austen’s 1813 novel Cast: Keira Knightley (Elizabeth Bennet), Matthew Macfadyen (Mr. Darcy), Judi Dench, Donald Sutherland IMDb: 7.8/10 | Rotten Tomatoes: 85% OTT: Netflix India
Joe Wright’s 2005 adaptation is the romantic film most likely to convert viewers who think they don’t like period dramas. Elizabeth Bennet (Knightley) is one of literature’s finest heroines — witty, principled, and frequently wrong — and Mr. Darcy (Macfadyen) is the model of the romantic lead who improves, rather than merely being revealed as secretly good all along. The hand-flex scene at the carriage. The dawn field scene. The “you have bewitched me body and soul” proposal. Three of the most discussed moments in romantic cinema of the 2000s.
Part Four: Romantic Films Coming in 2026
Funny Story (2026) — Netflix (date TBC)
Based on: Funny Story novel by Emily Henry (Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation) Director / Adaptor: TBC | Cast: Not confirmed OTT: Netflix (adaptation rights confirmed)
Emily Henry’s Funny Story (2024) — about two strangers who end up as roommates after their respective partners leave them for each other — is being adapted for Netflix. Henry is the most commercially successful romance novelist of the 2020s; her previous Netflix adaptations (Beach Read, People We Meet on Vacation) have generated strong viewership. No confirmed cast or release date as of March 2026, but active development confirmed.
Love & War (2026/2027) — Theatrical, India
Director: Sanjay Leela Bhansali | Cast: Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal Budget: ₹350 crore | Status: In production — delayed, no confirmed date (see our Bollywood March 2026 guide for full details)
Bhansali’s follow-up to Heeramandi is a love triangle set against a war backdrop — two army officers (Ranbir and Vicky) in conflict over the same woman (Alia). His first collaboration with Ranbir Kapoor since Saawariya (2007). The most anticipated Indian romantic film of 2026 or 2027 whenever it arrives.
How to Build the Perfect 2026 Romantic Watchlist
For a first-time romantic cinema experience: Start with Jab We Met (Netflix, Hindi) — it is the most accessible and immediately warm entry point into great romantic storytelling. Then DDLJ (Netflix). Then Before Sunrise (Netflix).
For the best of 2025 now streaming: Watch Eternity on Apple TV+ first — it is more emotionally accessible than Materialists and the 91% audience score reflects genuine warmth. Then Materialists on Max for a sharper, more sophisticated experience.
For South Indian romantic cinema: Sita Ramam on JioCinema is the non-negotiable starting point. Hindi dub is available and the film loses nothing in translation.
For classics: The Before trilogy on Netflix (all three films in one evening) is the finest romantic marathon available on any streaming service in India.
For the thinking-person’s romance: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Prime Video) and In the Mood for Love (MUBI India) are the two films most likely to change how you think about romantic storytelling.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the best romantic movie to watch in 2026? For something current: Eternity (A24, 2025, Apple TV+) — Elizabeth Olsen in an afterlife love triangle with a 91% audience score — is the most emotionally rewarding romantic film of 2025. For an all-time classic: Before Sunrise (1995, Netflix India) — 100% Rotten Tomatoes, the most acclaimed romantic film in the trilogy format.
What are the best romantic movies streaming on Netflix India in 2026? DDLJ (1995, Shah Rukh Khan, Kajol — 8.1 IMDb), Dil Chahta Hai (2001, Aamir Khan — 8.1 IMDb), Jab We Met (2007, Shahid Kapoor, Kareena Kapoor — 7.9 IMDb), Kal Ho Naa Ho (2003, Shah Rukh Khan — 7.8 IMDb), Before Sunrise / Sunset / Midnight trilogy (1995–2013 — 8.1/8.1/7.9 IMDb), and Pride & Prejudice (2005 — 7.8 IMDb). All verified as streaming on Netflix India as of March 2026.
What was the best romantic film of 2025? By critical consensus, Materialists (Celine Song, A24, June 2025) — Dakota Johnson, Pedro Pascal, Chris Evans — was the most ambitious romantic film of the year, earning $108 million on a $20 million budget and 76% on Rotten Tomatoes. Eternity (A24, November 2025) — Elizabeth Olsen, Miles Teller, Callum Turner — scored 91% with audiences and is the warmer, more conventionally romantic of the two. Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (February 2025, Prime Video India) was the most widely watched.
Is Sita Ramam available in Hindi on OTT? Yes. Sita Ramam (2022, Dulquer Salmaan, Mrunal Thakur, 8.4 IMDb) is available in Hindi dub on JioCinema India. The Telugu original is also available on JioCinema. It is among the best Indian romantic films of the 2020s.
What romantic movies are coming in 2026? Love & War (Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Ranbir Kapoor, Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal) is the most anticipated Indian romantic film, though its release has been delayed — no confirmed date as of March 2026. Funny Story (Netflix, Emily Henry adaptation) is in development. For international releases, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey (July 17, 2026 — Matt Damon, Anne Hathaway, Tom Holland) has a central romance in its Odysseus-Penelope storyline, though it is primarily an epic adventure.
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Last updated: March 6, 2026. Sources: Wikipedia — Materialists (film) (box office $108M worldwide, A24, June 13, 2025, Celine Song); Wikipedia — Eternity (2025 film) (TIFF premiere September 7, 2025, A24 release November 26, 2025, David Freyne, Pat Cunnane); Rotten Tomatoes — Materialists (76% critics, 61% audience); Rotten Tomatoes — Eternity (76% critics, 91% audience); IMDb — Materialists (6.2/10), Eternity (6.9/10), Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy (6.3/10), Sita Ramam (8.4/10), DDLJ (8.1/10), Before Sunrise (8.1/10), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (8.3/10), In the Mood for Love (8.1/10); Variety — Eternity review (David Rooney, November 20, 2025); Variety — Materialists review (Owen Gleiberman, June 12, 2025); Screen Rant — Eternity A24 Elizabeth Olsen Rotten Tomatoes debut (September 10, 2025); A24 Films — Eternity official synopsis; HuffPost — Materialists streaming review (Max, December 2025); Collider — “Best Romantic Movies of 2025, Ranked” (December 12, 2025); Marie Claire — “Best Romance Movies of 2025” (November 24, 2025); JustWatch India — OTT platform confirmations for DDLJ, Sita Ramam, Dil Chahta Hai, Jab We Met, Kal Ho Naa Ho, Before Sunrise trilogy, Pride & Prejudice, Eternal Sunshine, In the Mood for Love (verified March 2026). All IMDb scores, Rotten Tomatoes scores, and OTT platform details verified against named sources as of March 6, 2026.
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