Romance movies
She Came To Me (2023)
Peter Dinklage stars in this romcom about love in all its forms. A composer suffering from writer’s block finds inspiration after an adventurous one-night stand.
Bros (2022)
A funny, charming romcom about two gay men who avoid commitment. They find themselves drawn to each other and start dating.
Redeeming Love (2022)
Angel, who was forced into child prostitution, expects nothing but pain from men until she meets Michael. Adapted from the popular novel.
The Swearing Jar (2022)
This musical romance is adapted from an acclaimed play by Kate Hewlett. Follow Carey and Simon, who are happily married and expecting a child, but a lie threatens to ruin everything.
7 romance movies for your perfect date night
It’s just a movie, sitting on your playlist, waiting for you to watch it. Make every night date night with 7 classic romcoms on Showmax.
Ticket To Paradise (2022)
A divorced couple teams up to stop their lovestruck daughter from making the same mistake they once made in this delightful romcom.
Marry Me (2022)
Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson are thrown together in this heart-warming, crazy rom-com. A pop star marries a stranger from the audience after being betrayed by her fiancé.
6 movies about love and romance – with a twist
In these unconventional love stories, the romantic relationships seem doomed – by time, space or other people. Can love really conquer all?
Licorice Pizza (2021)
Paul Thomas Anderson weaves a love story about a romance between a teenager and a twenty-something woman in California in the 1970s.
Moonshot (2022)
As Mars is terraformed, two college students sneak aboard a space shuttle to join their significant others on the red planet.
The Lost City (2022)
A romance novelist and her cover model get swept up in a kidnapping that lands them in a jungle adventure.
The Big Sick (2017)
Pakistan-born comedian Kumail Nanjiani and grad student Emily Gardner fall in love but struggle as their cultures clash.
The musical In the Heights offers a timely, toe-tapping dose of joy
This colourful and joyous musical drama follows the daydreams and community spirit of a suburb called Washington Heights in New York.
The Violent Heart (2020)
Two people from different backgrounds fall in love, but their complicated family histories threaten to tear their romance apart.
The Stand In (2020)
When Candy, a movie star, is sentenced to rehab, she sends her acting double to take her place, but things quickly spiral out of control.
Made in Italy (2020)
Liam Neeson and his real-life son star in this romcom about a father and son setting out to renovate their Italian home and their relationship.
The best of Shirley Frimpong on Showmax
From Dede to Shampaign, to Potato Potahto and The Perfect Picture, she’s changing the image of Ghana’s women on-screen.
The Photograph (2020)
This lively romantic drama tells a tale of two love stories. An estranged daughter’s quest to uncover the truth behind her mother’s hidden photographs ends with her finding love.
Last Christmas (2019)
Nothing seems to go right for young Kate, a frustrated Londoner who works as an elf in a year-round Christmas shop. But things take a turn for the better when she meets Tom.
The best of Akin Omotoso on Showmax
From romantic comedies, to dark and gritty thrillers, the collection of Nigerian-born filmmaker Akin Omotoso’s movies on Showmax will give you all the feels.
Five Feet Apart (2019)
Two teens meet and feel an instant attraction – but it’s complicated by the fact that both are cystic fibrosis patients who cannot touch for fear of life-threatening infection.
Saturday Night Fever (1977)
John Travolta shot to fame after this disco-era classic in which he plays a high school graduate who escapes his mundane life when he hits the dancefloor.
Love Lives Here (2019)
Love in the South African sun isn’t always straightforward, as career woman Zinhle finds out when she sets out to find her boo.
#WeLoveWillSmith Collection
Action man, romantic hero, comedy genius – see Will Smith in all his guises in this collection of some of his best movies.