Best TV shows — romance on Netflix : our Top 20

2026 · Hong Mi-ran, Hong Jeong-eun, Yoo Young-eun · 1 season

A famed TV host and her loyal interpreter crisscross the globe shooting a travel series, only to find that what they feel for one another is continually mangled by languages and cultural misunderstandings. As behind-the-scenes intimacy grows amid chaotic sets and foreign cities, they must decide whether a deeper connection can be spoken without words — or whether love will invent its own way to be understood.

With Kim Seon-ho, Go Youn-jung, Sota Fukushi, Lee E-dam, Choi Woo-sung, Sung Joon and Kim Won-hae

2025 · Kim Won-suk, Lim Sang-choon · 1 season

Set on Jeju Island, a spirited young woman and a steady young man form a connection that spans a lifetime of setbacks and triumphs, proving that love endures through the years.

With IU, Park Bo-gum, Moon So-ri, Park Hae-jun, Choi Dae-hoon, Na Moon-hee and Kim Yong-rim

2025 · Tracey Wigfield, Lang Fisher, Tina Fey · 2 seasons

A stop-motion animated adaptation of Jill Barklem’s Brambly Hedge stories that brings the tiny, cozy world of its animal residents to life. Co-produced by Reader’s Digest Video and Hit Entertainment, the series made its U.S. debut on the Starz premium channel in 1997.

With Tina Fey, Steve Carell, Colman Domingo, Erika Henningsen, Kerri Kenney, Will Forte and Marco Calvani

2023 · Melanie Halsall · 2 seasons

After a devastating loss upends her world, a teenager moves into her guardian’s bustling household in a close-knit small town, where she slowly rebuilds her life and discovers new depths of love, resilience, and friendship.

With Nikki Rodriguez, Noah LaLonde, Ashby Gentry, Johnny Link, Corey Fogelmanis, Connor Stanhope and Zoë Soul

2000 · 1 season

A college student trying to juggle classes, part-time work, and a fledgling social life finds his routine turned upside down when he moves in with a striking ex–K-pop idol. Her lingering fame brings paparazzi, overzealous fans, and awkward encounters that push him out of his comfort zone and force both of them to confront questions of privacy, identity, and unexpected attraction.

2024 · Jo Yong, Hong Jong-chan · 1 season

A chronically unlucky man and his ex—an engaged woman seemingly cursed by misfortune—are compelled to travel together as he embarks on the final journey of his life.

With Woo Do-hwan, Lee You-mi, Oh Jung-se, Kim Hae-sook, Kim Min-seok, Lee El and Lee Hae-yeong

2023 · Jenny Han · 2 seasons

Kitty Song Covey, a teenage dating guru who’s always had a rulebook for romance, uproots her life to close the gap with her long-distance boyfriend. But moving across the globe forces her to discover that offering relationship tips is worlds away from living through messy, unpredictable feelings. As she navigates a new culture, shifting friendships and unexpected attractions, Kitty must relearn what love actually demands when her own heart is at stake.

With Anna Cathcart, Choi Min-yeong, Gia Kim, Sang Heon Lee, Anthony Keyvan, Peter Thurnwald and Jocelyn Shelfo

2025 · April Blair · 1 season

In a close-knit Texas town, three rival ranching families battle for control of the land, the honor of their names and the hearts of those caught in between.

With Josh Duhamel, Minka Kelly, James Brolin, Eoin Macken, Lizzy Greene, Marianly Tejada and Jack Schumacher

2025 · Kim Eun-sook, Lee Byeong-heon · 1 season

A whimsical genie, awakened after a thousand years, appears to grant wishes to a woman who was born without the ability to feel. His eccentric magic upends her orderly life with unpredictable, poignant moments—can his strange gifts teach her to experience love and rediscover the wonder she’s been missing?

With Kim Woo-bin, Suzy, Ahn Eun-jin, Steve Sanghyun Noh, Ko Kyu-phil, Lee Zoo-young and Kim Mi-kyeong

2022 · 1 season

Driven to win the culinary world's most coveted prize, a proud heir clashes with an unassuming, fiercely independent chef whose daring dishes shatter his assumptions — and their rivalry unexpectedly blossoms into a tender romance.

With Ji Chang-wook, Sooyoung Choi, Sung Dong-il, Won Ji-an, Nam Tae-hun, Yang Hee-kyung and Kil Hae-yeon

2025 · Mara Brock Akil · 2 seasons

When Chuck is given a rare, terminal diagnosis, he and his girlfriend Delphine resolve to stop holding back and spend his remaining time chasing every wish and impulse—seeking adventure, intimacy and fearless joy as they cram a lifetime into the days they have left.

With Lovie Simone, Michael Cooper Jr., Wood Harris and Karen Pittman

2025 · Oh Choong-hwan, Lee Na-eun · 1 season

A passionate cinephile and a rising director ignite a brief, intense romance that collapses before it can fully blossom. Years later, a chance reunion forces them to confront old wounds and new lives — can they close the gap time and ambition have created and try again?

With Choi Woo-shik, Park Bo-young, Lee Jun-young, Jeon So-nee, Kim Jae-wook and Cha Woo-min

2019 · 1 season

A brilliant writer who, as the youngest editor-in-chief in his publishing house’s history, finds himself pulled into the fraught world of a former copywriter desperately scrambling to regain steady work.

With Lee Jong-suk, Lee Na-young, Jung Eu-gene, Wi Ha-jun, Kim Tae-woo, Kim Yu-mi and Kim Sun-young

2024 · 1 season

A weathered trunk that washes ashore reveals a peculiar union between a couple caught in the middle of a mystery. Its contents ignite an investigation that dismantles a covert marriage-for-hire operation.

With Seo Hyun-jin, Gong Yoo, Jung Yun-ha, Kim Dong-won and Uhm Ji-won

2024 · 1 season

An ambitious politician's upward trajectory is derailed when a threatening phone call forces his non-verbal wife's silence into the center of a terrifying game; as the scandal spreads and pressure mounts, their already tense marriage begins to fracture, revealing buried secrets, shifting loyalties and the costs of power.

With Yoo Yeon-seok, Chae Soo-bin, Heo Nam-jun, Jang Gyu-ri, Jeong Dong-hwan, You Seong-joo and Chu Sang-mi

2025 · Zhu Yi · 1 season

Wen Yifan unexpectedly finds herself living with Sang Yan, a former high school classmate she once turned down. They keep their distance until Sang Yan reveals that Wen has been sleepwalking, a discovery that pulls their lives back together and forces them to confront the past and one another.

With Bai Jingting, Zhang Ruonan, Edward Chen, Zhang Miaoyi, Zhai Xiaowen, Yuan Ye and Chen Jianan

2025 · Kim Ho Soo · 1 season

A potato researcher with twelve years’ experience, wrapped up in a confidential experiment, clashes with a newly appointed, eccentric director; what begins as a combustible professional rivalry—full of sharp disagreements and competing visions—slowly softens into a warm, unexpected office romance as they juggle secrets, ambitions and the risk of letting their guard down.

With Kang Tae-oh, Lee Sun-bin, Lee Hak-ju, Shin Hyeon-seung, Jin Ga-eun, Gwag Ja-hyeong and Yoo Seung-mok

2025 · Gema R. Neira, María José Rustarazo · 1 season

Commissioned to secure suitable husbands for three wealthy sisters, chaperone Elena Bianda is swept into a late-1800s world of romance, scandal and uproarious intrigue.

With Nadia de Santiago, Álvaro Mel, Isa Montalbán, Zoe Bonafonte and Iratxe Emparan

2025 · 1 season

A driven career astronaut and an adventurous space tourist, sent on separate assignments, cross paths in orbit and—despite their different lives and goals—find themselves unexpectedly falling for one another.

With Lee Min-ho , Gong Hyo-jin, Oh Jung-se, Han Ji-eun, Kim Ju-hun, Lee El and Lee Cho-hee

2004 · Ilene Chaiken · 1 season

A Norwegian family’s island holiday on La Palma turns into a fight for survival when a young volcanologist uncovers worrying seismic and gas anomalies that suggest a catastrophic eruption is imminent. With official warnings slow to come and the island’s infrastructure buckling, they must navigate rising panic, fractured loyalties and impossible choices as the landscape and their relationships are forever altered.

With Jennifer Beals, Katherine Moennig, Mia Kirshner, Leisha Hailey, Laurel Holloman, Pam Grier and Rachel Shelley