Our Most Anticipated Romance Movies In 2025

Love is in the air... maybe. The slate of romance movies in 2025 is a little oddball, if I'm being honest. There are a handful of traditional romantic comedies on the calendar, and some big flashy musical romances. But call me greedy, because I just want more! Hopefully the one we're waiting for is just around the corner.

Before Romance Twitter (or worse, BookTok) comes after me, I am deliberately using a loose definition of romance as a genre to make this list. I do not anticipate that every movie here will have a Happily Ever After TM. Some of them may be of the romantic comedy variety, others more angsty, and more than one might be gothic. Some of them might shove the love story into a subplot (*cough* Wicked *cough*) but it'll be worth it. These are the movies that I think will make us swoon in one way or another.

You’re Cordially Invited

Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell! Dueling wedding reservations! Chaos ensues!

Release date: January 30, 2025 on Prime

Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy

If you can stand to live in a world where Mark Darcy is dead (!!!) then the latest Bridget Jones romp looks to be just as romantic and zany as previous installments.

Release date: February 13, 2025 in theaters.

La Dolce Villa

Netflix's Valentine's adjacent romantic offering stars Scott Foley (Scandal) as a single dad who travels to Italy to stop his daughter from spending her savings on a renovation project and they both find love in the process.

February 13, 2025 on Netflix.

Snow White

I got the sense from some early interviews that Rachel Zegler's Snow White would be more girlbossy, with little to no romance... but I see her yearning in the direction of "Jonathan" (Andrew Burnap) in that trailer! “I would never want to box someone in and say, ‘If you want love, then you can’t work.’ Or ‘If you want to work, then you can’t have a family.’ It’s not true. It’s never been true," she more recently told Variety. “The love story is very integral."

Release date: March 21 2025 in theaters.

The Bride!

Maggie Gyllenhaal directed a movie musical with Christian Bale and Jessie Buckley as Frankenstein's Monster and Frankenstein's Bride, respectively. She got Newsies' own Jack Kelly to sing again?! Say no more.

Release date: September 25, 2025 in theaters.

Wicked: For Good

Romance takes center stage in the second part of the Oz-set musical. The seeds planted in the first part come to fruition in a major way. And based on the way people were thirsting over Fiyero in 2024, it's going to be a BFD. Gelphie 'shippers will get fed, I'm sure, but the world, and certainly not the internet, is not even close to ready to hear Jonathan Bailey sing "As Long As You're Mine."

Release date: November 21, 2025

And here are some upcoming romance movies that should be in front of our hearts and eyeballs in 2025, but do not currently have release dates.

Plainclothes

Tom Blyth (The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes) and Russell Tovey (Looking, Being Human) play an undercover police officer whose job it is to entrap and arrest gay men in 1990s New York and the man he actually fell in love with on the job. The forbidden love of it all! Based on true events, too...

Release date: This film is premiering at Sundance film festival. Depending on how it is received, a studio or streaming service will buy the rights and then we'll know when the rest of us can see it. If you can't wait, you can buy tickets to watch Sundance movies including this one at home—they're just a little more expensive than the multiplex.

The Wedding Banquet

Director Andrew Ahn's followup to Love Island is a romantic comedy about a green card marriage (and a lavender marriage) two friends decide to embark on so that they can each get something they need. It's a remake of Ang Lee's 1993 film and stars Bowen Yang (Saturday Night Live), Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon), Kelly Marie Tran (Star Wars: The Last Jedi), and Han Gi-chan (Where Your Eyes Linger).

Release date: This movie is also premiering at Sundance. As of right now, it won't be screening for online audiences. Booooo! The wait is gonna kill me.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein

Yes, 2024 was the year of the witch and 2025 will be the year of the Frankenstein ('s monster, adds me and all of your annoying friends). Mary Shelley's story is not exclusively a romance. But there is romance in it. And with a cast including Oscar Isaac, Mia Goth, and Jacob Elordi as the monster... it's sure to at least get a little horny.

Release date: TBD on Netflix

Materialists

This is one of my most anticipated films and I'm crushed that I don't know more about it. It's directed by Celine Song, who wrote and directed Passages. (Her husband, BTW, wrote the screenplays for both Challengers and Queer. They bleed messy romance.) It's an A24 film. It's about a matchmaker, her clients and her own boyfriend. It stars Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal. I mean come on.

Release date: tragically, TBD

The History of Sound

A.K.A. the movie where Paul Mescal (Normal People) and Josh O'Connor (Challengers) fall in love with each other and travel New England recording folk songs in 1919. Gonna need a cozy sweater and some tissues for this one.

Release date: Aiming to release at a summer film festival like Cannes and go from there.

The People We Meet On Vacation

The long-awaited Emily Henry adaptation also stars Blyth alongside Emily Bader, who starred in one of the most surprising romantic television shows of 2024, My Lady Jane. They both know what they're doing, so the adaptation IMHO is in safe hands.

Release date: TBD, Netflix.

Hamnet

This adaptation, from director Chloé Zhao (Nomadland), stars Mescal and Buckley as William Shakespeare and his wife, here called Agnes. It's a story about their marriage and how the loss of their son inspired the play Hamlet.

Release date: TBD in theaters.

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