Top Unrequited Love Movies & TV Shows

Cast

Kana Hanazawa

Seiichiro Yamashita

Makoto Furukawa

Natsumi Takamori

Orange (2016) TV Show

8.0 473 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-PG

Story: One day, Naho Takamiya receives a letter written to herself from ten years in the future. As Naho reads on, the letter recites the exact events of the day, including the transfer of a new student into her class named Kakeru Naruse. The Naho from ten years later repeatedly states that she has many regrets, and she wants to fix these by making sure the Naho from the past can make the right decisions—especially regarding Kakeru. What's more shocking is that she discovers that ten years later, Kakeru will no longer be with them. Future Naho asks her to watch over him closely.

Plot: suicide, time travel, high school, romance, unrequited love, tragedy, fate, school, ...

Cast

Charlie Chaplin

Al Ernest Garcia

Merna Kennedy

Harry Crocker

The Circus (1928)

7.9 900 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 72 min.

Audience: G

Story: Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.

Plot: circus, one-sided love, tramp, unrequited love, black and white, silent film, employer employee relationship

Cast

Mirai Shida

Natsuki Hanae

Koichi Yamadera

Hiroaki Ogi

A Whisker Away (2020)

7.9 1.5K votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy

Country: Japan

Duration: 104 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A peculiar girl transforms into a cat to catch her crush's attention. But before she realizes it, the line between human and animal starts to blur.

Plot: mask, secret love, magic, cat, shapeshifting, supernatural, bullying, anthropomorphism, ...

Cast

Jumpol Adulkittiporn

Atthaphan Phunsawat

Nawat Phumphothingam

Chinnarat Siriphongchawalit

Theory of Love (2019) TV Show

7.7 50 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Third is a filmology major and a member of the Savage Team along with his best friends Two, Bone, and Khai, but he has a secret. Third has been secretly in love with Khai for years. For three years he has kept his.

Plot: based on novel or book, jealousy, one-sided love, friendship, playboy, unrequited love, repentance, bromance, ...

Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008) TV Show

7.6 560 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Audience: TV-PG

Story: Aspiring super-villain Dr. Horrible wants to join the Evil League of Evil and win the girl of his dreams, but his nemesis, Captain Hammer, stops him at every turn.

Plot: anti hero, musical, laundromat, parody, unrequited love, mad scientist, super villain

Cast

Asami Seto

Mamoru Miyano

Yoshimasa Hosoya

Chihayafuru (2011) TV Show

7.6 67 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama

Country: Japan

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 74

Audience: TV-14

Story: Chihaya Ayase has spent most of her life supporting her sister’s model career. When she meets a boy named Arata Wataya, he thinks Chihaya has potential to become a great karuta player. As Chihaya dreams of becoming Japan's best karuta player, she is soon separated from her karuta playing friends. Now in high school, Chihaya still plays karuta in the hope that she will one day meet her friends again.

Plot: competition, card game, strong woman, training, high school, growing up, romance, slice of life, ...

Kiznaiver (2016) TV Show

7.6 161 votes

Genre: Animation, Drama, Science Fiction

Country: Japan, United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Audience: TV-14

Story: The anime's setting is a fictional Japanese city named Sugomori City. One day, Noriko Sonosaki tells her classmate Katsuhira Agata, "You have been selected to be a Kiznaiver." The Kizuna System, which allows Katsuhira to share his wounds, connects him to the classmates whose lives and personalities completely differ from his. The Kizuna System is an incomplete system for the implementation of world peace that connects people through wounds. All those who are connected to this system are called Kiznaivers. When one Kiznaiver is wounded, the system divides and transmits the wound among the other Kiznaivers. Sugomori City is built on reclaimed land, but as the years go by, the city's population is decreasing. The story is set in this town where Katsuhira and the others live.

Style: philosophical, intimate

Plot: amnesia, secret organization, friendship, high school, romance, unrequited love, psychic, anti war, ...

Cast

Noppakao Dechaphatthanakun

Poompat Iam-samang

Sirikorn Kananurak

Prarunyu Sooksamran

Lovely Writer (2021) TV Show

7.6 37 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Gene, a successful BL novelist, meets Nubsib, a deceptive actor auditioning for the lead role in the drama adaptation of his book. Chaos unfolds.

Plot: love triangle, based on novel or book, jealousy, coming out, writer's block, friendship, parody, fan culture, ...

Cast

Jing Boran

Zhou Dongyu

Tian Zhuangzhuang

Qu Zheming

Us and Them (2018)

7.5 169 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: China

Duration: 120 min.

Audience: 12

Story: Ten years ago, on a train home during the busy Spring Festival travel period, fate brings Xiaoxiao and Jianqing together. Like many young couples, they meet, fall in love, and strive to make it work, but eventually, the harsh realities of life make them drift apart. Ten years later, they run into each other again. Will they make the most of this second chance and rekindle what they once lost?

Plot: family relationships, unrequited love, break-up, tearjerker, slow burn romance, friends to lovers, lovers reunited

Cast

Hattie Morahan

Charity Wakefield

Dan Stevens

David Morrissey

Sense and Sensibility (2008) TV Show

7.5 126 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United Kingdom

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 3

Story: Sense and Sensibility is a 2008 British television drama, based on Jane Austen's 1811 novel of the same name. The screenplay was written by Andrew Davies, who said that the aim of the series was to make viewers forget Ang Lee's 1995 film version. As such, this series was more overtly sexual than previous Austen adaptations, and Davies included scenes featuring a seduction and a duel that are suggested in Austen's novel but absent from the feature film.A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.

Plot: london, england, sibling relationship, based on novel or book, romance, unrequited love, miniseries, class differences, ...

Time: 19th century

Cast

Narongdet Rungarun

Thakrit Chaiwut

Palat Chayutnitiroj

KaowOat Supasin Singhapan

Playboyy (2023) TV Show

7.5 13 votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 14

Story: Three friends dive into the dark side of the sex industry to find a missing person, facing their own fears and desires along the way.

Style: erotic

Plot: homophobia, infidelity, drug addiction, kidnapping, revenge, unrequited love, social commentary, prostitution, ...

Splendor in the Grass (1961)

7.5 306 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

Plot: asylum, forbidden love, kansas, usa, unrequited love, sexual repression, stock market crash

Time: 1920s

Cast

Raj Kapoor

Rishi Kapoor

Dharmendra

Manoj Kumar

Mera Naam Joker (1970)

7.4 80 votes

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance

Country: India

Duration: 248 min.

Story: Raju faces many hurdles and disappointments in matters of the heart throughout his life. But as a clown in a circus, he tries to make his audience laugh at the cost of his own sorrows. Along the way, Raju loves and loses, but must always keep a smile on his face because, in the words of his circus manager, "The show must go on."

Style: melancholy

Plot: circus, philosophy, entertainer, sadness, clown, love, social commentary, loneliness, ...

Cast

Sissy Spacek

Piper Laurie

Amy Irving

William Katt

Carrie (1976)

7.3 4.3K votes

Genre: Horror, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: R

Story: Withdrawn and sensitive teenager Carrie White faces bullying from her classmates and abuse from her fanatically pious mother. When she begins to suspect that she has supernatural powers, things take a dark and violent turn.

Style: suspenseful

Plot: high school, child abuse, based on novel or book, isolation, cemetery, stage, bible, telekinesis, ...

Cast

Charlie Cox

Claire Danes

Michelle Pfeiffer

Mark Strong

Stardust (2007)

7.3 4.5K votes

Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Country: Iceland, United Kingdom

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.

Plot: witch, new love, based on novel or book, kingdom, transformation, prince, beauty, wall, ...

Cast

Lee Soon-jae

Lee Kwang-soo

Seo Shin-ae

Julien Kang

High Kick Through The Roof (2009) TV Show

7.3 12 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 126

Audience: NR

Story: Two sisters, twenty-two and nine in age, lived all their lives with their father, deep in the country where even electricity is an unaffordable luxury. One day, after a bizarre turn of events, they end up in Seoul. The two sisters encounter a severe case of cultural shock as soon as they hit the city. Building forests, computers, department stores, subways, cell phone To 9-year old Shin-ae, who had never seen these before, Seoul is like a fantasy that can sometimes be difficult to fathom.Meanwhile, a peculiar family lives at a corner of a residential area in Seongbuk-dong.Sun-jae is the president of a small food company.At 72, Sun-jae falls head over heels in love just as his life is slowly winding down. His granddaughter Hae-ri shrieks every morning in the bathroom over her constipation. All the other members of this family have some sort of defect. The most invisible son-in-law in Seongbuk-dong, the EQ-deficient doctor, the perverted female teacher Come to think of it, every man living in this day and age harbors some kind of unique defect.This is why they shout confidently, "Only those of you who are perfect may throw stones at us!" is a sitcom portraying the uplifting comedic story of two sisters who begin to work at Sun-jae's house as maids and their episodes with members of this family. At the same time, it is a drama of these two girls blossoming into young women as they fall in love.

Plot: unrequited love, school, bromance, seoul, south korea

Cast

Nattapol Diloknawarit

Pakorn Thanasrivanitchai

Tanshi Bumrungkit

Apiwat Apiwatsayree

Together with Me (2017) TV Show

7.3 36 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 27

Story: After realizing they want to be more than just friends, childhood buddies Knock and Korn must confront obstacles before becoming an item.

Plot: love triangle, jealousy, infidelity, one-night stand, friendship, love-hate relationship, romance, unrequited love, ...

Cast

Phuwin Tangsakyuen

Naravit Lertratkosum

Sahaphap Wongratch

Thanawin Teeraphosukarn

Fish Upon The Sky (2021) TV Show

7.2 33 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Thailand

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 12

Story: Total opposites Pi and Mork are love rivals and compete endlessly for the attention of their crush, Nan. Because of this, they get along like water and oil. But what if Nan was never Mork's real target to begin with?

Plot: based on novel or book, unrequited love, makeover, cyberbullying, secret crush, boys' love (bl), school bullying

Cast

Sae Byeol

Seo I-han

Lee Woo-jin

Panutuch Saelee

Love Class (2022) TV Show

7.1 26 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: South Korea

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 32

Audience: TV-PG

Story: In a college class where students are paired up and sent on dates, a sophomore is partnered with an upperclassman whose gentle kindness steals his heart.

Plot: love triangle, love at first sight, coming out, friendship, high school, unrequited love, stalking, sexual tension, ...

Cast

Hio Miyazawa

Kisetsu Fujiwara

Wakana Matsumoto

Honoka Matsumoto

His (2020)

7.1 28 votes

Genre: Drama, Romance

Country: Japan

Duration: 127 min.

Audience: NR

Story: Shun and Nagisa first meet and fall in love during their first year of high school. While Shun is graduating from university, Nagisa tells him that he doesn't see a future for them. Despite Shun's strong feelings, they go their separate ways. Years later, Shun is now a store owner, living alone in a rural area. Out of the blue, Nagisa arrives with his six-year-old daughter, Sora. Spending time together, Shun realizes he still harbors feelings for Nagisa. Can Nagisa reconcile with his feelings for Shun, which have been there all along?

Plot: coming out, infidelity, countryside, homophobia, village, social commentary, unrequited love, rural area, ...

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