Share:

Movies: Best "romantic rivalry" Movies

All Providers
My Providers
Sort by:
91 movies found (page 1/4):

Wayne's World(1992)

PG-13
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Music
3.3/5 (with 958 votes)

The adventures of two amiably aimless metal-head friends, Wayne and Garth. From Wayne's basement, the pair broadcast a talk-show called "Wayne's World" on local public access television. The show comes to the attention of a sleazy network executive who wants to produce a big-budget version of "Wayne's World"—and he also wants Wayne's girlfriend, a rock singer named Cassandra. Wayne and Garth have to battle the executive not only to save their show, but also Cassandra.

Directed by Penelope Spheeris - With Mike Myers, Dana Carvey, Rob Lowe, Tia Carrere, Donna Dixon, Brian Doyle-Murray, ...
Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Chennai Express(2013)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Action
3.3/5 (with 138 votes)

Rahul embarks on a journey to a small town in Tamil Nadu to fulfill the last wish of his grandfather: to have his ashes immersed in the Holy water of Rameshwaram. En route, he meets a woman hailing from a unique family down South. As they find love through this journey in the exuberant lands of South India, an unanticipated drive awaits them.

Directed by Rohit Shetty - With Deepika Padukone, Shah Rukh Khan
Subscription Netflix | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

My Brother Is an Only Child(2007)

R
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.4/5 (with 183 votes)

Accio and Manrico are two working-class brothers in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome, charismatic, womanizing, and loved by all, while younger Accio is moody, hotheaded, and lives everything as if it was a war, much to his parents' chagrin. When the former is drawn into left-wing politics, Accio joins the fascists out of spite. His flimsy beliefs are put to test when he meets Manrico's like-minded girlfriend, falling in love with her.

Directed by Daniele Luchetti - With Elio Germano, Riccardo Scamarcio, Angela Finocchiaro, Diane Fleri, Massimo Popolizio, Alba Rohrwacher, ...

Diabolique(1996)

1h 47min | Mystery, Thriller, Horror
2.7/5 (with 121 votes)

The wife and mistress of a cruel school master collaborate in a carefully planned and executed scheme to murder him. The plan goes well until the body, which has been strategically dumped, disappears. The psychological strain starts to weigh on the two women when a retired police investigator begins looking into the man's disappearance on a whim.

Directed by Jeremiah S. Chechik - With Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani, Chazz Palminteri, Kathy Bates, Spalding Gray, Shirley Knight, ...
Subscription Amazon Prime Video

Raise the Red Lantern(1991)

2h 5min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 291 votes)

China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained. This competition gets out of hand.

Directed by Zhang Yimou - With Gong Li, He Saifei

The Lady from Shanghai(1947)

NR
| 1h 27min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.7/5 (with 269 votes)

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Directed by Orson Welles - With Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane, Glenn Anders, Ted de Corsia, Erskine Sanford, ...
Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Other Woman(2010)

R
| 1h 38min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 168 votes)

Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.

Directed by Don Roos - With Natalie Portman, Lisa Kudrow, Lauren Ambrose, Scott Cohen, Charlie Tahan, Anthony Rapp, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Black Swan(1942)

1h 27min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 33 votes)

When notorious pirate Henry Morgan is made governor of Jamaica, he enlists the help of some of his former partners in ridding the Caribbean of buccaneers. When one of them apparently abducts the previous governor's pretty daughter and joins up with the rebels, things are set for a fight.

Directed by Henry King - With Tyrone Power, Maureen O'Hara, Laird Cregar, Thomas Mitchell, George Sanders, Anthony Quinn, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Sleuth(1972)

PG
| 2h 18min | Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 251 votes)

A mystery novelist devises an insurance scam with his wife's lover – but things aren't exactly as they seem.

Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz - With Laurence Olivier, Michael Caine

Andaz Apna Apna(1994)

2h 40min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Kids & Family
3.5/5 (with 88 votes)

Two slackers competing for the affections of an heiress inadvertently become her protectors from an evil criminal.

Directed by Rajkumar Santoshi - With Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Karisma Kapoor, Raveena Tandon, Paresh Rawal, Shakti Kapoor, ...
Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Amazon Instant Video | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Ranma 1/2(2011)

1h 35min | Action, Comedy, Fantasy
3.4/5 (with 23 votes)

Akane is the youngest of three daughters for Soun Tendo. Her father Soun Tendo runs a dojo for martial arts. Akane hopes to carry on her father's dojo into the distant future. Meanwhile, Akane has been selected to marry Ranma, the son of her father's long time friend Genma. Akane and Ranma's relationship has developed into a love and hate relationship. Also, Ranma isn't your typical boy. While on a training journey Ranma fell into the Spring of the Drowned Girl and now changes into a women whenever cold water is splashed on him. Warm water will allow him to revert back to a male. Problems arise when Akane's father declares that the successor to their dojo must be a male. Now, Akane and Ranma (being a man only half of the time) must find a secret spring that can cure him of his curse.

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1935)

2h 23min | Fantasy, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

A film adaptation by Max Reinhardt of his popular stage productions of Shakespeare's comedy. Four young people escape Athens to a forest where the king and queen of the fairies are quarreling, while meanwhile a troupe of amateur actors rehearses a play. When the fairy Puck uses a magic flower to make people fall in love, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...

Directed by Max Reinhardt, William Dieterle - With James Cagney, Olivia de Havilland, Anita Louise, Victor Jory, Frank McHugh, Dick Powell, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store
Ad Protect Your Online Privacy with a VPN

Don't risk your personal information and online activities being exposed to hackers, government surveillance, and other online threats. A VPN encrypts your internet connection and hides your IP, giving you maximum security and privacy. Take control of your online safety, switch to a VPN now. Choose one of these services to learn more:

Reap the Wild Wind(1942)

1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

The Florida Keys in 1840, where the implacable hurricanes of the Caribbean scream, where the salvagers of Key West, like the intrepid and beautiful Loxi Claiborne and her crew, reap, aboard frail schooners, the harvest of the wild wind, facing the shark teeth of the reefs to rescue the sailors and the cargo from the shipwrecks caused by the scavengers of the sea.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Ray Milland, John Wayne, Paulette Goddard, Robert Preston, Susan Hayward, Charles Bickford, ...

Mickey's Rival(1936)

NR
| 8min | Animation, Comedy, Kids & Family, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 29 votes)

Minnie's old friend, Mortimer Mouse, drops in on Mickey and Minnie's picnic. His practical jokes and coming on to Minnie soon have Mickey stewing, and their car isn't happy either. When Mortimer gets a nearby bull enraged and takes off, the car comes to the rescue after Mickey gets tangled up in a red blanket.

Directed by Wilfred Jackson

The Trail of the Lonesome Pine(1936)

NR
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A well-established tale of a long-running feud between two mountain clans.

Directed by Henry Hathaway - With Sylvia Sidney, Fred MacMurray, Henry Fonda, Nigel Bruce, Beulah Bondi, George McFarland, ...

Second Chorus(1941)

1h 24min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Music
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Danny O'Neill and Hank Taylor are rival trumpeters with the Perennials, a college band, and both men are still attending college by failing their exams seven years in a row. In the midst of a performance, Danny spies Ellen Miller who ends up being made band manager. Both men compete for her affections while trying to get the other one fired.

Directed by H. C. Potter - With Paulette Goddard, Fred Astaire, Artie Shaw, Burgess Meredith, Jimmy Conlin, Charles Butterworth, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Angel(1937)

1h 31min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

A woman and her husband take separate vacations, and she falls in love with another man.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Marlene Dietrich, Herbert Marshall, Melvyn Douglas, Edward Everett Horton, Laura Hope Crews, Herbert Mundin, ...
Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Buy Amazon Instant Video

The Old Maid(1939)

NR
| 1h 35min | Drama
3.8/5 (with 18 votes)

The lives of two cousins are complicated by the return of an ex-boyfriend and an illegitimate child.

Directed by Edmund Goulding - With Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, George Brent, Donald Crisp, Jane Bryan, James Stephenson, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

Two Stepmoms(2016)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 69 votes)

What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex-husband?

Directed by Luca Lucini - With Claudia Gerini, Margherita Buy, Giampaolo Morelli, Paolo Calabresi, Gigio Morra, Bettina Giovannini, ...

La vita facile(2011)

1h 42min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 50 votes)

An Italian doctor starts a new life in Kenya to escape the city, but life catches up with him when an old friend offers his assistance along with his wife, who happens to be an old lover.

Directed by Lucio Pellegrini - With Pierfrancesco Favino, Stefano Accorsi, Camilla Filippi, Ivano Marescotti, Vittoria Puccini, Angelo Orlando, ...

Winning(1969)

2h 3min | Action, Drama
2.9/5 (with 16 votes)

Frank Capua is a rising star on the race circuit who dreams of winning the big one - the Indianapolis 500. But to get there he runs the risk of losing his wife Elora to his rival, Luther Erding, and strains the relationship with his stepson.

Directed by James Goldstone - With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Bobby Unser, Clu Gulager, Dan Gurney, Karen Arthur, ...

The Prodigal Daughter(1981)

1h 35min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 21 votes)

A young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers her father is having an affair, becomes jealous of his mistress and tries to turn his feelings in her direction.

Directed by Jacques Doillon - With Eva Renzi, Jane Birkin, Michel Piccoli, Natasha Parry, René Féret

Saturday, Sunday and Monday(1990)

1h 59min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 11 votes)

Rosa, a mature mother of several children, is concerned that her beloved husband Don Peppino is losing interest in her, and does his best to provoke some jealousy in him. She is a masterful cook, and if her romantic charms are fading, her culinary skills are not. By one means and another, and after some amusing confrontations, she succeeds in keeping her husband from taking her for granted and harmony is restored.

Directed by Lina Wertmüller - With Sophia Loren, Luca De Filippo, Luciano De Crescenzo, Pupella Maggio, Alessandra Mussolini, Pierluigi Cuomo, ...

Dig!(2004)

R
| 1h 47min | Documentary, Music
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

A documentary on the once promising American rock bands The Brian Jonestown Massacre and The Dandy Warhols. The friendship between respective founders, Anton Newcombe and Courtney Taylor, escalated into bitter rivalry as the Dandy Warhols garnered major international success while the Brian Jonestown Massacre imploded in a haze of drugs.

Directed by Ondi Timoner - With Anton Newcombe, Courtney Taylor-Taylor, Joel Gion, Matt Hollywood, The Dandy Warhols, Kristen Kerr, ...
Rent Apple / iTunes Store | Buy Apple / iTunes Store

The Merry Widow(1926)

2h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.

Directed by Erich von Stroheim - With Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, George Fawcett, Tully Marshall, Clark Gable, ...

Eight Days a Week(1997)

R
| 1h 32min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

Peter loves his next door neighbour Erica and, on the advice of his grandfather, decides to camp out on her front lawn for the entire summer, or until she agrees to go out with him. His father is none too happy about the idea and refuses to let his son back in the house, even to get a change of clothes.

Directed by Michael Davis - With Keri Russell, Catherine Hicks

The Smiling Lieutenant(1931)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

A simple wink, intended by Austrian palace guard Lt. Nikolaus von Preyn for girlfriend, Franzi, is accidentally intercepted -- and misread -- by the visiting Princess Anna. As a result, the soldier has no choice but to marry the royal lady and move with her to the neighboring kingdom of Flausenthurm. His girlfriend follows to continue the romance and, subversively, give Princess Anna tips on how to keep her husband satisfied.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch - With Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins, Charles Ruggles, George Barbier, George Barbier, ...

Whipped(2000)

R
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Romance / Love
1.9/5 (with 20 votes)

Three to one may sound like fairly good odds, but it depends on the game. When the "one" is one very irresistible woman and the "three" are three hopelessly smitten guys, the deck is pretty stacked. In the battle of the sexes, the first rule is to never underestimate the power of a woman.

Directed by Peter M. Cohen - With Amanda Peet, Brian Van Holt, Callie Thorne, Bridget Moynahan, Beth Ostrosky Stern
Subscription Amazon Prime Video | Rent Amazon Instant Video | Buy Amazon Instant Video

The Amy Fisher Story(1993)

1h 36min | TV Movie, Crime, Drama
2.4/5 (with 11 votes)

The true story of the Long Island teen who shoots and wounds the wife of a man she called her lover.

Directed by Andy Tennant - With Drew Barrymore

Midnight Offerings(1981)

NR
| 1h 40min | Horror, TV Movie
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Vivian has magic powers. She doesn't hesitate to save her boyfriend David from failing in school by murdering teachers. However, David has gotten tired of her and is putting his charm on a new girl in school, Robin. Robin discovers that she also has magic powers, and before long the two girls clash violently.

Directed by Rod Holcomb
previous page
next page