Romance Shows, a list by Muhammad Osman

89

/809/

86

/154/

98

/34/

95

71

/5/

age 16+

Two of the biggest stars in Major League Hockey are bound by ambition, rivalry, and a magnetic pull neither of them fully understands. What begins as a secret fling between two fresh faced rookies evolves into a years-long journey of love, denial, and self-discovery. Over the next eight years, as they chase glory on the ice, they struggle to navigate their feelings for each other. Torn between the sport they live for and the love they can’t ignore, they must decide if there’s room in their fiercely competitive world for something as fragile – and powerful – as real love.

79

IMDb 13

8.0

/115381/

78

/7294/

77

/1657/

3.9

/47961/

83

/64/

88

69

/35/

age 16+

An English teacher travels back in time to prevent the Kennedy assassination, but discovers he is attached to the life he has made in a bygone era.

75

IMDb 48

7.6

/369541/

78

/16683/

82

/10733/

84

/209/

71

64

/51/

age 14+

Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.

78

IMDb 55

7.7

/31827/

76

/1442/

67

/224/

97

/99/

76

75

/35/

age 14+

Liza Miller, a suddenly single stay-at-home mother, tries to get back into the working world, only to find it’s nearly impossible to start at the bottom at 40-year old. When a chance encounter convinces her she looks younger than she is, Liza tries to pass herself off as 26 and lands a job as an assistant at Empirical Press. Now she just has to make sure no one finds out the secret only she and her best friend Maggie share.

63

IMDb 58

6.8

/139578/

70

/5320/

76

/1495/

64

/159/

47

56

/64/

age 15+

New passions. New fashions. New Emily? A plucky American marketing whiz spreads her wings in life and love after landing her dream job in Paris.

82

IMDb 94

8.9

/1178135/

84

/47849/

84

/8782/

78

/92/

93

65

/24/

age 14+

Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get from each other to be the perfect antidote to the pressures of life.

77

IMDb 94

8.1

/927937/

78

/64458/

79

/12159/

81

/123/

85

61

/50/

age 14+

Physicists Leonard and Sheldon find their nerd-centric social circle with pals Howard and Raj expanding when aspiring actress Penny moves in next door.

84

8.5

/532329/

82

/28487/

78

/3169/

85

/108/

90

87

/30/

age 13+

The Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan is a wonderfully large and blended family. They give us an honest and often hilarious look into the sometimes warm, sometimes twisted, embrace of the modern family.

78

7.9

/75464/

79

/2483/

78

/891/

79

/27/

age 14+

ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.

77

7.6

/358918/

76

/15140/

80

/3760/

89

/275/

70

73

/89/

age 16+

A dangerously charming, intensely obsessive young man goes to extreme measures to insert himself into the lives of those he is transfixed by.

86

8.7

/243476/

84

/8751/

81

/1139/

92

/78/

94

80

/141/

age 14+

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

76

7.8

/79863/

78

/2966/

74

/229/

87

/109/

72

69

/49/

age 15+

An agnostic sex podcaster and a newly single rabbi fall in love, but can their relationship survive their wildly different lives and meddling families?

80

8.3

/774303/

80

/45530/

81

/5505/

84

/82/

85

69

/46/

age 14+

A father recounts to his children - through a series of flashbacks - the journey he and his four best friends took leading up to him meeting their mother.

68

7.1

/295576/

70

/13040/

74

/3532/

65

/83/

66

67

/32/

age 14+

A hedonistic jingle writer's free-wheeling life comes to an abrupt halt when his brother and 10-year-old nephew move into his beach-front house.

82

8.2

/391647/

79

/17354/

82

/7695/

93

/231/

78

78

/59/

age 16+

Inexperienced Otis channels his sex therapist mom when he teams up with rebellious Maeve to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.

79

7.8

/260760/

77

/17373/

74

/1590/

95

/103/

84

67

/29/

age 14+

Jessica Day is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. Goofy, positive, vulnerable and honest to a fault, Jess has faith in people, even when she shouldn't. Although she's dorky and awkward, she's comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys—especially at home.

93

9.1

/34689/

89

/806/

87

/446/

4.7

/91120/

100

/8/

98

In Jeju, a spirited girl and a steadfast boy's island story blossoms into a lifelong tale of setbacks and triumphs — proving love endures across time.

74

7.3

/69149/

75

/2534/

81

/1025/

79

/55/

66

72

/15/

age 14+

Every summer, Belly and her family head to the Fishers’ beach house in Cousins. Every summer is the same ... until Belly turns sixteen. Relationships will be tested, painful truths will be revealed, and Belly will be forever changed. It’s a summer of first love, first heartbreak and growing up — it's the summer she turns pretty.

74

7.7

/246408/

75

/15199/

73

/2414/

78

/92/

78

66

/31/

RogerEbert

3.0

age 12+

There is a town in Maine where every story book character you've ever known is trapped between two worlds, victims of a powerful curse. Only one knows the truth and only one can break the spell. Emma Swan is a 28-year-old bail bonds collector who has been supporting herself since she was abandoned as a baby. Things change for her when her son Henry, whom she abandoned years ago, finds her and asks for her help explaining that she is from a different world where she is Snow White's missing daughter.

66

64

6.3

/5055/

65

/350/

60

/81/

74

/23/

72

62

/11/

age 14+

Fifteen years into the future, science has made a discovery that changes the lives of everyone on the planet – a test that unequivocally tells you who your soulmate is.

79

7.9

/16394/

77

/449/

82

/155/

age 7+

Elizabeth Thatcher, a young school teacher from a wealthy Eastern family, migrates from the big city to teach school in a small coal mining town in the west.

84

8.7

/172281/

83

/6802/

82

/1575/

94

/138/

82

76

/38/

age 14+

Follows the lives and families of three adults living and growing up in the United States of America in present and past times. As their paths cross and their life stories intertwine in curious ways, we find that several of them share the same birthday - and so much more than anyone would expect.

84

8.7

/201249/

85

/7514/

82

/1418/

86

/64/

96

70

/43/

age 18+

A down-to-earth account of the lives of both illustrious and ordinary Romans set in the last days of the Roman Republic.

72

7.4

/158006/

72

/4982/

73

/2104/

70

/85/

80

64

/27/

age 16+

Based on the bestselling book by Candace Bushnell, Sex and the City tells the story of four best friends, all single and in their late thirties, as they pursue their careers and talk about their sex lives, all while trying to survive the New York social scene.

85

8.4

/112268/

81

/3639/

81

/1274/

4.4

/548270/

91

/91/

92

82

/25/

age 16+

Marianne and Connell weave in and out of each other's lives in this exploration of sex, power and the desire to love and be loved.

80

8.3

/39951/

80

/1325/

77

/308/

89

/77/

79

72

/20/

age 14+

Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ruins: his father dead, the family mine long since closed, his house wrecked and his sweetheart pledged to marry his cousin. But Ross finds that hope and love can be found when you are least expecting it in the wild but beautiful Cornish landscape.

54

5.6

/33926/

64

/1303/

70

/1364/

40

/29/

52

45

/11/

age 18+

A woman's daring sexual past collides with her married-with-kids present when the bad-boy ex she can't stop fantasizing about crashes back into her life.

75

7.5

/211953/

75

/8494/

81

/2248/

84

/50/

79

59

/47/

age 14+

An exclusive group of privileged teens from a posh prep school on Manhattan's Upper East Side whose lives revolve around the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl.

75

7.7

/20124/

75

/739/

74

/251/

Tired of the constant comments on her relationship status, perpetually single Johanne starts a 24-day hunt for a boyfriend to bring home for Christmas.

72

7.4

/43308/

75

/2732/

73

/619/

69

/34/

age 14+

Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world full of temptations and pitfalls. Testing her sobriety is her formerly estranged mother, now back in Christy's life and eager to share passive-aggressive insights into her daughter's many mistakes.

76

59

7.5

/3171/

73

/165/

80

/50/

3.3

/8446/

A passionate fling in Jeju ends abruptly — until fate reunites an heir and a young woman when she joins his company, disguised as a married mother.

72

7.6

/102512/

76

/4155/

77

/896/

68

/67/

72

67

/18/

age 14+

Ryan Atwood, a teen from the wrong side of the tracks, moves in with a wealthy family willing to give him a chance. But Ryan's arrival disturbs the status quo of the affluent, privileged community of Newport Beach, California.

75

7.5

/29770/

73

/656/

79

/953/

age 7+

When the big woods of Wisconsin becomes a difficult spot for hunting, Charles Ingalls reluctantly decides to move his family, pioneering west. Their life on the farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s is full of adventure, tragedy, and triumph. Based on the books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.

70

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7.6

/187/

63

/6/

72

/6/

After moving to a quiet rural town to heal from past heartbreak, a withdrawn teacher slowly rediscovers warmth and joy through her unexpected connection with a rough-around-the-edges but kindhearted local man.

75

8.1

/197308/

79

/8599/

79

/1527/

63

/19/

age 15+

Crank up the 8-track and flash back to a time when platform shoes and puka shells were all the rage in this hilarious retro-sitcom. For Eric, Kelso, Jackie, Hyde, Donna and Fez, a group of high school teens who spend most of their time hanging out in Eric’s basement, life in the ‘70s isn’t always so groovy. But between trying to figure out the meaning of life, avoiding their parents, and dealing with out-of-control hormones, they’ve learned one thing for sure: they’ll always get by with a little help from their friends.

66

6.8

/16321/

72

/935/

73

/135/

62

/26/

64

57

/11/

age 14+

One year after a mysterious accident left her with amnesia, 17-year-old Cadence returns to Beechwood, an island off Martha's Vineyard, seeking answers. As three generations of the distinguished Sinclair family gather at their private summer utopia, no one will talk about the accident – neither her childhood friends "The Liars" nor her first love Gat, forcing her to uncover the truth herself.

75

7.4

/57997/

76

/2181/

79

/568/

82

/26/

67

age 14+

After seeing an ad for a midwife, a recently divorced big-city nurse moves to the redwood forests of California, where she meets an intriguing man.

75

8.1

/86287/

78

/3229/

78

/792/

69

/75/

83

66

/55/

age 18+

The Tudors is a history-based drama series following the young, vibrant King Henry VIII, a competitive and lustful monarch who navigates the intrigues of the English court and the human heart with equal vigor and justifiable suspicion.

77

7.2

/26316/

71

/1340/

69

/180/

96

/88/

79

77

/39/

age 14+

A platonic pair of former best friends approaching midlife reconnect after a long rift. The duo’s friendship becomes more consuming—and destabilizes their lives in a hilarious way.

87

8.8

/101843/

84

/1618/

82

/531/

4.3

/77378/

88

/17/

97

age 14+

Set in England in the early 19th century, Pride and Prejudice tells the story of Mr and Mrs Bennet's five unmarried daughters after the rich and eligible Mr Bingley and his status-conscious friend, Mr Darcy, have moved into their neighbourhood. While Bingley takes an immediate liking to the eldest Bennet daughter, Jane, Darcy has difficulty adapting to local society and repeatedly clashes with the second-eldest Bennet daughter, Elizabeth.

77

7.8

/73648/

77

/3690/

78

/817/

87

/64/

78

67

/16/

age 14+

Closet witch Diana Bishop and centuries-old vampire Matthew Clairmont are drawn into a deadly mystery and forbidden romance when a magical book shows up in an Oxford library.

65

6.6

/40265/

68

/1164/

73

/794/

53

/13/

age 14+

Follow the lives of a group of teenagers living in the upscale, star-studded community of Beverly Hills, California and attending the fictitious West Beverly Hills High School and, subsequently, the fictitious California University after graduation.

60

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5.8

/236/

63

/42/

59

/7/

Two colleagues from vastly different backgrounds initially despise each other. He is a privileged "nepo baby," while she is a determined worker who has earned everything through her efforts. Their competitive spirit leads to unexpected sparks and, eventually, deeper affection.

78

7.5

/22737/

77

/1058/

83

/603/

68

/16/

88

age 14+

When Ruby unwittingly witnesses an explosive secret at Maxton Hall private school, the arrogant millionaire heir James Beaufort has to deal with the quick-witted scholarship student for better or worse: He is determined to silence Ruby. Their passionate exchange of words unexpectedly ignites a spark...

71

50

7.2

/4380/

72

/101/

70

/31/

Affairs, scandals, blackmail and many, many headteachers. Who said education was easy?

88

8.5

/91203/

84

/4221/

85

/1628/

98

/147/

95