1990 Romantic Drama Movies

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Edward Scissorhands(1990)

PG-13

| 1h 45min | Fantasy, Drama, Romance / Love

3.9/5 (with 5,825 votes)

A small suburban town receives a visit from a castaway unfinished science experiment named Edward.

Directed by Tim Burton - With Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, ...

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Ghost(1990)

PG-13

| 2h 7min | Fantasy, Drama, Thriller, Mystery, Romance / Love

3.6/5 (with 2,451 votes)

Sam Wheat is a banker, Molly Jensen is an artist, and the two are madly in love. However, when Sam is murdered by his friend and corrupt business partner Carl Bruner over a shady business deal, he is left to roam the earth as a powerless spirit. When he learns of Carl's betrayal, Sam must seek the help of psychic Oda Mae Brown to set things right and protect Molly from Carl and his goons.

Directed by Jerry Zucker - With Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn, Rick Aviles, Vincent Schiavelli, ...

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The Hot Spot(1990)

| 2h 10min | Romance / Love, Crime

3.2/5 (with 100 votes)

A man enters a small town which unwittingly gets obscured as girls, money, bank heists, police, killers and even a loner will strive forward in this crime-thriller.

Directed by Dennis Hopper - With Don Johnson, Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith, William Sadler, Jerry Hardin, ...

White Palace(1990)

| 1h 43min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.1/5 (with 56 votes)

Max Baron is a Jewish advertising executive in his 20s who's still getting over the death of his wife. Nora Baker is a 40-something diner waitress who enjoys the wilder side of life. Mismatched or not, their attraction is instant and smoldering. With time, however, their class and age differences become an obstacle in their relationship, especially since Max can't keep Nora a secret from his Jewish friends and upper-crust associates forever.

Directed by Luis Mandoki - With Susan Sarandon, James Spader, Jason Alexander, Kathy Bates, Eileen Brennan, Steven Hill, ...

Hamlet(1990)

| 2h 10min | Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 190 votes)

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Directed by Franco Zeffirelli - With Mel Gibson, Glenn Close, Alan Bates, Paul Scofield, Ian Holm, Helena Bonham-Carter, ...

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Stanley & Iris(1990)

PG-13

| 1h 44min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 65 votes)

An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired, she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night.

Directed by Martin Ritt - With Jane Fonda, Robert De Niro, Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Feodor Chaliapin Jr., Jamey Sheridan, ...

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Ju Dou(1990)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 56 votes)

A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed in glowing technicolour, this tale of romantic and familial love in the face of unbreakable tradition is more universal than its setting.

Directed by Zhang Yimou, Yang Fengliang - With Gong Li, Li Baotian, Li Wei

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Come See the Paradise(1990)

| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, History

3.1/5 (with 21 votes)

Come See The Paradise is a deeply touching love story set against the backdrop of a dramatic and controversial period in American history, It follows the romance and eventual marriage of Jack McGurn (Dennis Quad), a hot blooded Irish American, and a beautiful Japanese American Lily Dawanura (Tamlyn Tomita), at the outset of World War II. The clash of cultures, at once painful for the two lovers, becomes insurmountable after the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor. Lily and the Kawamuras are relocated To a bleak, outdoor internment camp in California, Jack is drafted into the Army, powerless to help the woman he loves abandoning all hope of ever winning her family's approval.

Directed by Alan Parker - With Dennis Quaid, Tamlyn Tomita, Sab Shimono, Shizuko Hoshi, Becky Ann Baker, Colm Meaney, ...

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Truly Madly Deeply(1990)

| 1h 46min | Fantasy, Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love, TV Movie

3.6/5 (with 38 votes)

Nina is totally heartbroken at the death of her boyfriend Jamie, but is even more unprepared for his return as a ghost. At first it's almost as good as it used to be - hey, even the rats that infested her house have disappeared. But Jamie starts bringing ghostly friends home and behaving more and more oddly.

Directed by Anthony Minghella - With Juliet Stevenson, Alan Rickman, Bill Paterson, Michael Maloney, Vania Vilers

Havana(1990)

| 2h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.9/5 (with 62 votes)

An American professional gambler named Jack Weil decides to visit Havana, Cuba to gamble. On the boat to Havana, he meets Roberta Duran, the wife of a revolutionary, Arturo. Shortly after their arrival, Arturo is taken away by the secret police, and Roberta is captured and tortured. Jack frees her, but she continues to support the revolution.

Directed by Sydney Pollack - With Robert Redford, Lena Olin, Raul Julia, Alan Arkin, Tomas Milian, Tony Plana, ...

The Forbidden Dance(1990)

1h 37min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

A princess in the Amazon rain forests tries to fight a conglomerate threatening the forests by going to Los Angeles. There she links up with a rich kid who tells her that she must get on television to succeed with her mission. Quick as a wink, the two come up with the idea of winning a lambada dance contest.

Directed by Greydon Clark - With Laura Harring, Pilar Del Rey

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Baaghi: A Rebel for Love(1990)

2h 37min | Action, Drama, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Saajan is a college youth, enjoying his life, meets with Kajal the girl of his dreams at a brothel. Kajal is an innocent victim of Dhanraj, who runs this brothel. Saajan eventually falls in love with Kajal, but this love affair is not acceptable to the society, which includes his parents Mr. and Mrs. Sood. Saajan's dad Col. Sood wants his son to join the Indian army. On the other side, this relationship of love is also not acceptable to Dhanraj, since he doesn't want any of his brothel girls to go into normal respectable society. Trapped between both, Saajan, along with his friends, rescues his love from the brothel. But the question remains: Will Saajan's parents accept him along with Kajal or Will Dhanraj's evilness overcome the couple's love?

Directed by Deepak Shivdasani - With Salman Khan, Nagma, Kiran Kumar, Shakti Kapoor, Mohnish Bahl

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Aashiqui(1990)

2h 32min | Drama, Romance / Love, Music

2.4/5 (with 10 votes)

Rahul and Anu Verghese meet on the same day, while both are held by the police on charges of creating a disturbance, and running away respectively. They meet again, and love happens. Rahul helps Anu to be independent, and seek a job. Then Anu is discovered by a talent agent to be a model, which she accepts. Rahul wants to marry Anu, but first must establish himself.

Directed by Mahesh Bhatt - With Rahul Roy, Anu Aggarwal, Deepak Tijori, Reema Lagoo

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Fine Things(1990)

2h 30min | TV Movie, Romance / Love, Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

Bernard Fine's career leaves little time for romance, so fate takes over. When Bernie befriends a little girl, he meets - and falls for - her single mother, Liz. They soon marry and add a son to their new family. But the happiness is short-lived as Liz is fatally stricken by cancer. Added to the heartbreak is a threat from the past that could tear the family apart. For Bernie, it's a struggle to hold on to and savor the truly fine things in life.

Directed by Tom Moore - With D. W. Moffett, Tracy Pollan

Dil(1990)

2h 52min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 13 votes)

Raja lives a poor lifestyle along with his dad, Hazariprasad and mom. He attends college where he has several run-ins with wealthy fellow-collegian, Madhu Mehra. Matters escalate to such an extent that she accuses him of sexually molesting her. When his dad comes to know, he decides to seize this chance to get rich quickly, masquerades as a wealthy businessman, approaches Mr. Mehra, and arranges for their children to get married. Murphy's law prevails at the time of the engagement - changing everyone's lives forever.

Directed by Indra Kumar - With Aamir Khan, Madhuri Dixit, Saeed Jaffrey, Deven Verma, Anupam Kher, Johnny Lever, ...

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Humiliated and Insulted(1990)

1h 46min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Based on the Fyodor Dostoevsky novel about a young woman who leaves her family to live with her lover whose father dead set on keeping them apart.

Directed by Andrei Eshpai - With Nastassja Kinski, Nikita Mikhalkov, Victor Rakov, Aleksandr Abdulov, Lyudmila Polyakova, Boris Romanov, ...

Maha-Sangram(1990)

2h 30min | Romance / Love, Action, Crime, Drama

Uttar Pradesh-based Vishal gets a telegram from Santa Cruz Police Station that his younger collegian brother, Arjun, is dead. Distraught he travels to Bombay, collects his brothers ashes, and finds out that Arjun met a violent death. With the aid of a street-smart con-woman and her mentor, Babu Kasai Hyderabadi, he then sets out to find who killed his brother - not knowing that soon he will be drawn into the dark world of Godha and Vishwaraj.

Directed by Mukul S. Anand - With Vinod Khanna, Madhuri Dixit, Govinda

The Crossing(1990)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 3 votes)

A single day. To challenge the past. To accept the present. To decide the future. Sam arrives in his home town after 18 months away, hopeful that Meg, the girlfriend he abandoned, will go back with him to the city. His return brings the outside world into the parochial confines of the town, provoking mixed reactions which fuel conflict. Meg, heartbroken when Sam left her, has begun an affair with Sam's friend Johnny. On the eve of Sam's arrival, Johnny asks Meg to marry him. The marriage proposal, along with Sam's unexpected return, forces Meg to choose not only between the two men but also the type of life she wants. The conflicting loyalties and emotions generated by the triangle provide the focus for an array of inter-related characters enmeshed in the life of this country town. There is a feeling of impending tragedy as night falls and Johnny becomes increasingly desparate.

Directed by George Ogilvie - With Russell Crowe, Danielle Spencer, Robert Mammone

Shubhayathra(1990)

2h | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 1 vote)

Vishnu and Arundhathi meet and get married in Mumbai but face problems in finding a house. Now, Vishnu suffers immensely since his family stays in another town.

Directed by Kamal - With Jayaram, Parvathy, Innocent, K.P.A.C. Lalitha, Mamukkoya, Jagadish, ...

Kokila(1990)

Action, Crime, Drama

Siddhartha, a typical young man, falls in love with Kokila. She too eventually falls for him and both get married. At first they live happily, however later on Siddhartha loses his eyes in an accident, which is when trouble starts for them.

Directed by Geetha Krishna - With Naresh

Mado, poste restante(1990)

1h 36min

2.1/5 (with 1 vote)

In this gentle comedy, Mado (Marianne Groves) is the letter-carrier for her small town, and she is constantly on the lookout for a good Catholic man who shares her enthusiasm for sunrises. She even puts up posters on trees and walls advertising her interest. The townspeople make fun of her, but she isn't discouraged. Her best friend is Germaine (Isabelle Gelinas), a pretty girl whose moral standards are not as strict as Mado's. When a film director (Oleg Yankovsky) arrives in town, everyone is agog, but Mado is particularly keen to find out about him. However, it seems that he has his eye on Germaine, and he isn't really in her league anyhow.

Directed by Aleksandr Adabashyan - With Marianne Groves, Oleg Yankovsky, Isabelle Gélinas, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Bernard Freyd, Michel Winogradoff, ...

Keladi Kanmani(1990)

2h 27min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 2 votes)

Keladi Kanmani (English: Listen, my dear) is a 1990 Indian Tamil drama film directed by Vasanth in his directorial debut. The film stars S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and Radhika Sarathkumar. The film was a commercial success and ran for over 285 days at theatres.

Directed by Vasanth - With S. P. Balasubrahmanyam

Kaleidoscope(1990)

1h 36min | TV Movie, Drama, Romance / Love

2.4/5 (with 2 votes)

A family friend hires gumshoe John Chapman to find and reunite three sisters estranged by fate for 30 years. The circuitous trail leads Chapman from the Big Apple to Beantown to the City of Light. His investigation, however, opens the door to disturbing revelations about a forgotten past.

Directed by Jud Taylor - With Jaclyn Smith, Perry King

Accidental Waltz(1990)

1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Tatyana Prokofievna is an ageing woman with a diva’s behavior, but her life is uneventful, ordinary and dull. To escape the everyday slumber she seeks companionship of young men. She provides shelter and becomes involved in their problems. Her ex-boyfriend has married a younger woman. Tatyana is forced to keep her loneliness hidden because of her role as hostess.

Directed by Svetlana Proskurina

1871(1990)

1h 40min | Drama, History

2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

A young actress becomes politically aware within the Paris Commune of 1871.

Directed by Ken McMullen - With Ana Padrão, Roshan Seth, John Lynch, Jack Klaff, Timothy Spall, Ian McNeice, ...

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Traces of an Amorous Life(1990)

1h 45min | Romance / Love

What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.

Directed by Peter Del Monte - With Valeria Golino, Walter Chiari, Luciano Bartoli, Giorgio Biavati, Chiara Caselli, Massimo Dapporto, ...

Fools of Fortune(1990)

1h 49min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.

Directed by Pat O'Connor - With Iain Glen, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Julie Christie, Michael Kitchen, Amy-Joyce Hastings, John Kavanagh, ...

Ballad of Kurbini(1990)

1h 46min | Romance / Love

The film speaks of the fate of soldiers who go to war as mercenaries and return dead. Village girls wait and wait for their fiancé to return from war and finally get married to others. A Vizier tries to marry a beautiful young woman who is tired of long wait and husband soldier.

Directed by Kujtim Çashku - With Reshat Arbana

The African Woman(1990)

1h 45min | Drama

Serious, logical Martha (Barbara Sukowa) and dreamy, superstitious Anna (Stefania Sandrelli) have been best friends. That is, until Martha's lover Victor (Sami Frey) decides he'd rather be Anna's lover. Mortified, Martha flees to Africa, leaving the field clear for her ex-friend. When Anna comes down with cancer, she pleads with Victor to get her to come back and somehow put this rupture in their friendship behind them. Curiously, Martha does come back, and after some understandable tension and a few bitter words, they manage to reestablish their friendship, though it is now on a different basis.

Directed by Margarethe von Trotta - With Stefania Sandrelli, Barbara Sukowa, Sami Frey, Jan Biczycki, Alexandre Mnouchkine, Jacques Sernas, ...

1990 Romantic Drama Movies

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Edward Scissorhands(1990)

Ghost(1990)

The Hot Spot(1990)

White Palace(1990)

Hamlet(1990)

Stanley & Iris(1990)

Ju Dou(1990)

Come See the Paradise(1990)

Truly Madly Deeply(1990)

Havana(1990)

The Forbidden Dance(1990)

Baaghi: A Rebel for Love(1990)

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Aashiqui(1990)

Fine Things(1990)

Dil(1990)

Humiliated and Insulted(1990)

Maha-Sangram(1990)

The Crossing(1990)

Shubhayathra(1990)

Kokila(1990)

Mado, poste restante(1990)

Keladi Kanmani(1990)

Kaleidoscope(1990)

Accidental Waltz(1990)

1871(1990)

Traces of an Amorous Life(1990)

Fools of Fortune(1990)

Ballad of Kurbini(1990)

The African Woman(1990)

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