The Best Movies about Forbidden Love

Love is a beautify experience. When love is forbidden there can be many complications generated because of that. Here is a collection of the best forbidden love stories which definitely will make you fall in love all over again.

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The Notebook

Rachel McAdams, Ryan Gosling, Gena Rowlands
Nick Cassavetes
2004

An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately reunited, seven years later, after they have taken different paths.

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7.8 IMDB
2

Moonrise Kingdom

Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward, Edward Norton
Wes Anderson
2012

Set on an island off the coast of New England in the summer of 1965, Moonrise Kingdom tells the story of two twelve-year-olds who fall in love, make a secret pact, and run away together into the wilderness. As various authorities try to hunt them down, a violent storm is brewing off-shore – and the peaceful island community is turned upside down in more ways than anyone can handle.

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7.8 IMDB
3

Wuthering Heights

Tom Hardy, Andrew Lincoln, Sarah Lancashire
Coky Giedroyc
2009

Foundling Heathcliff is raised by the wealthy Earnshaws in Yorkshire but in later life launches a vendetta against the family.

7.6 IMDB
4

Little Children

Kate Winslet, Patrick Wilson, Jennifer Connelly
Todd Field
2006

The lives of two lovelorn spouses from separate marriages, a registered sex offender, and a disgraced ex-police officer intersect as they struggle to resist their vulnerabilities and temptations.

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7.5 IMDB
5

Lars and the Real Girl

Ryan Gosling, Emily Mortimer, Paul Schneider
Craig Gillespie
2007

Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars' new lady is a life-size plastic woman. On the advice of a doctor, his family and the rest of the community go along with his delusion.

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7.3 IMDB
6

The Virgin Suicides

Kirsten Dunst, James Woods, Kathleen Turner
Sofia Coppola
1999

A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.

7.2 IMDB
7

The Danish Girl

Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Matthias Schoenaerts
Tom Hooper
2015

When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks on a groundbreaking journey as a transgender pioneer.

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7.1 IMDB
8

Water for Elephants

Reese Witherspoon, Robert Pattinson, Christoph Waltz
Francis Lawrence
2011

In this captivating Depression-era melodrama, impetuous veterinary student Jacob Jankowski joins a celebrated circus as an animal caretaker but faces a wrenching dilemma when he's transfixed by angelic married performer Marlena.

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6.9 IMDB
9

Bright Star

Abbie Cornish, Ben Whishaw, Paul Schneider
Jane Campion
2009

In 1818, high-spirited young Fanny Brawne finds herself increasingly intrigued by the handsome but aloof poet John Keats, who lives next door to her family friends the Dilkes. After reading a book of his poetry, she finds herself even more drawn to the taciturn Keats. Although he agrees to teach her about poetry, Keats cannot act on his reciprocated feelings for Fanny, since as a struggling poet he has no money to support a wife.

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6.9 IMDB
10

The Lover

Jane March, Tony Leung Ka-Fai, Frédérique Meininger
Jean-Jacques Annaud
1992

A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.

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6.9 IMDB
11

Warm Bodies

Nicholas Hoult, Teresa Palmer, Analeigh Tipton
Jonathan Levine
2013

After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.

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6.9 IMDB
12

Romeo + Juliet

Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
Baz Luhrmann
1996

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

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6.7 IMDB
13

Anna Karenina

Keira Knightley, Jude Law, Aaron Taylor-Johnson
Joe Wright
2012

Trapped in a loveless marriage, aristocrat Anna Karenina enters into a life-changing affair with the affluent Count Vronsky.

6.6 IMDB
14

The Sleeping Dictionary

Jessica Alba, Hugh Dancy, Brenda Blethyn
Guy Jenkin
2003

A young Englishman is dispatched to Sarawak to become part of the British colonial government. He encounters some unorthodox local traditions, and finds himself faced with tough decisions of the heart involving the beautiful Selima, the unwitting object of his affections.

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6.6 IMDB
15

Upside Down

Kirsten Dunst, Jim Sturgess, Timothy Spall
Juan Diego Solanas
2012

In an alternate universe where twinned worlds have opposite gravities, a young man battles interplanetary prejudice and the laws of physics in his quest to reunite with the long-lost girl of his dreams in this visually stunning romantic adventure that poses the question: what if love was stronger than gravity?

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6.4 IMDB